From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:44:27 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: aio: fix race between io_destroy() and io_submit()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.38-rc7~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7137c6bd455234bcb7560fd829e6ee49cae5fed6;p=pandora-kernel.git

aio: fix race between io_destroy() and io_submit()

A race can occur when io_submit() races with io_destroy():

 CPU1						CPU2
io_submit()
  do_io_submit()
    ...
    ctx = lookup_ioctx(ctx_id);
						io_destroy()
    Now do_io_submit() holds the last reference to ctx.
    ...
    queue new AIO
    put_ioctx(ctx) - frees ctx with active AIOs

We solve this issue by checking whether ctx is being destroyed in AIO
submission path after adding new AIO to ctx.  Then we are guaranteed that
either io_destroy() waits for new AIO or we see that ctx is being
destroyed and bail out.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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