aio: v4 ensure access to ctx->ring_pages is correctly serialised for migration
commit fa8a53c3 upstream. As reported by Tang Chen, Gu Zheng and Yasuaki Isimatsu, the following issues exist in the aio ring page migration support. As a result, for example, we have the following problem: thread 1 | thread 2 | aio_migratepage() | |-> take ctx->completion_lock | |-> migrate_page_copy(new, old) | | *NOW*, ctx->ring_pages[idx] == old | | | *NOW*, ctx->ring_pages[idx] == old | aio_read_events_ring() | |-> ring = kmap_atomic(ctx->ring_pages[0]) | |-> ring->head = head; *HERE, write to the old ring page* | |-> kunmap_atomic(ring); | |-> ctx->ring_pages[idx] = new | | *BUT NOW*, the content of | | ring_pages[idx] is old. | |-> release ctx->completion_lock | As above, the new ring page will not be updated. Fix this issue, as well as prevent races in aio_ring_setup() by holding the ring_lock mutex during kioctx setup and page migration. This avoids the overhead of taking another spinlock in aio_read_events_ring() as Tang's and Gu's original fix did, pushing the overhead into the migration code. Note that to handle the nesting of ring_lock inside of mmap_sem, the migratepage operation uses mutex_trylock(). Page migration is not a 100% critical operation in this case, so the ocassional failure can be tolerated. This issue was reported by Sasha Levin. Based on feedback from Linus, avoid the extra taking of ctx->completion_lock. Instead, make page migration fully serialised by mapping->private_lock, and have aio_free_ring() simply disconnect the kioctx from the mapping by calling put_aio_ring_file() before touching ctx->ring_pages[]. This simplifies the error handling logic in aio_migratepage(), and should improve robustness. v4: always do mutex_unlock() in cases when kioctx setup fails. Reported-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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