Re: [PATCH 10/32] aio: implement IOCB_CMD_POLL

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 06:32:25AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

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+	spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->ctx_lock, flags);
+	list_add_tail(&aiocb->ki_list, &ctx->delayed_cancel_reqs);
+	spin_unlock(&ctx->ctx_lock);

... and io_cancel(2) comes, finds it and inhume^Wcompletes it, leaving us to...

quoted

+	spin_lock(&req->head->lock);

... get buggered on attempt to dereference a pointer fetched from freed and
reused object.

FWIW, how painful would it be to pull the following trick:
	* insert into wait queue under ->ctx_lock
	* have wakeup do schedule_work() with aio_complete() done from that
	* have ->ki_cancel() grab queue lock, remove from queue and use
the same schedule_work()

That way you'd get ->ki_cancel() with the same semantics as originally for
everything - "ask politely to finish ASAP", and called in the same locking
environment for everyone - under ->ctx_lock, that is.  queue lock nests
inside ->ctx_lock; no magical flags, etc.

The cost is schedule_work() for each async poll-related completion as you
have for fsync.  I don't know whether that's too costly or not; it certainly
simplifies the things, but whether it's OK performance-wise...

Comments?

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