Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2020-03-12

Re: Is ext4_dio_read_iter() broken? - and xfs_file_dio_aio_read()

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: 2020-03-12 10:08:04
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-xfs

David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:
Is ext4_dio_read_iter() broken?  It calls:

	file_accessed(iocb->ki_filp);

at the end of the function - but surely iocb should be expected to have been
freed when iocb->ki_complete() was called?
I think it's actually worse than that.  You also can't call
inode_unlock_shared(inode) because you no longer own a ref on the inode since
->ki_complete() is expected to call fput() on iocb->ki_filp.

Yes, you own a shared lock on it, but unless somewhere along the
fput-dput-iput chain the inode lock is taken exclusively, the inode can be
freed whilst you're still holding the lock.

Oh - and ext4_dax_read_iter() is also similarly broken.

And xfs_file_dio_aio_read() appears to be broken as it touches the inode after
calling iomap_dio_rw() to unlock it.

David
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