dm-io: Fix a race condition in the wake up code for sync_io

Commit Message

Minfei Huang June 28, 2014, 1:26 a.m. UTC

Sorry, I have a mistake.
the function complete will record the flag to indicate it have been executed.


So the walking path of sync io is corrent to use function wait_for_completion_io.
Athrough sync io may be finished,  the thread do not be hanged.


Apologize for my mistake.



There's a race condition between the atomic_dec_and_test(&io->count)
in dec_count() and the waking of the sync_io() thread.  If the thread
is spuriously woken immediately after the decrement it may exit,
making the on the stack io struct invalid, yet the dec_count could
still be using it.

There are smaller fixes than the one here (eg, just take the io object
off the stack).  But I feel this code could use a clean up.

- simplify dec_count().

 - It always calls a callback fn now.
 - It always frees the io object back to the pool.

- sync_io()

 - Take the io object off the stack and allocate it from the pool the
   same as async_io.
 - Use a completion object rather than an explicit io_schedule()
   loop.  The callback triggers the completion.

Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <[e-mail]>
---
drivers/md/dm-io.c |   22 +++++++++-------------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-io.c b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
index 3842ac7..05583da 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-io.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ 
#include <linux/device-mapper.h>

#include <linux/bio.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/mempool.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@  struct dm_io_client {
struct io {
    unsigned long error_bits;
    atomic_t count;
-    struct task_struct *sleeper;
+    struct completion *wait;
    struct dm_io_client *client;
    io_notify_fn callback;
    void *context;
@@ -121,8 +122,8 @@  static void dec_count(struct io *io, unsigned int region, int error)
            invalidate_kernel_vmap_range(io->vma_invalidate_address,
                             io->vma_invalidate_size);

-        if (io->sleeper)
-            wake_up_process(io->sleeper);
+        if (io->wait)
+            complete(io->wait);

        else {
            unsigned long r = io->error_bits;
@@ -387,6 +388,7 @@  static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client *client, unsigned int num_regions,
     */
    volatile char io_[sizeof(struct io) + __alignof__(struct io) - 1];
    struct io *io = (struct io *)PTR_ALIGN(&io_, __alignof__(struct io));
+    DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait);

    if (num_regions > 1 && (rw & RW_MASK) != WRITE) {
        WARN_ON(1);
@@ -395,7 +397,7 @@  static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client *client, unsigned int num_regions,

    io->error_bits = 0;
    atomic_set(&io->count, 1); /* see dispatch_io() */
-    io->sleeper = current;
+    io->wait = &wait;
    io->client = client;

    io->vma_invalidate_address = dp->vma_invalidate_address;
@@ -403,15 +405,9 @@  static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client *client, unsigned int num_regions,

    dispatch_io(rw, num_regions, where, dp, io, 1);

-    while (1) {
-        set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-
-        if (!atomic_read(&io->count))
-            break;
-
-        io_schedule();
+    while (atomic_read(&io->count) != 0) {
+        wait_for_completion_io_timeout(&wait, 5);
    }
-    set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

    if (error_bits)
        *error_bits = io->error_bits;
@@ -434,7 +430,7 @@  static int async_io(struct dm_io_client *client, unsigned int num_regions,
    io = mempool_alloc(client->pool, GFP_NOIO);
    io->error_bits = 0;
    atomic_set(&io->count, 1); /* see dispatch_io() */
-    io->sleeper = NULL;
+    io->wait = NULL;
    io->client = client;
    io->callback = fn;
    io->context = context;