Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 6 authors, 2017-09-26

Re: [PATCH 04/12] bcache: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API

From: Coly Li <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-26 07:08:50
Also in: linux-bcache

On 2017/9/26 下午12:38, Michael Lyle wrote:
I believe this introduces a critical bug.

cl->list is used to link together the llists for both things waiting,
and for things that are being woken.

If a closure that is woken decides to wait again, it will corrupt the
llist that __closure_wake_up is using.

The previous iteration structure gets the next element of the list
before waking and is therefore safe.
Hi Mike,

Good catch! I see llist_del_all() but forget cl->list can be modified in
closure_wait(). Yes there is potential chance to mislead
llist_for_each_entry() to iterate wrong list.
llist_for_each_entry_safe() should be used here. I will send a fix to
Jens, hope to catch up 4.14 still.

Thanks!
-- 
Coly Li
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