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authorZach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>2005-11-07 00:59:31 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-07 07:53:38 -0800
commitd55b5fdaf40846221d543937b786956e27837fda (patch)
treeecdf572d7d2b08b4f7b31d804542a920934b6d9a
parent0f6ed7c2641fe4cea83cd09c21928ca30c0983ec (diff)
[PATCH] aio: remove aio_max_nr accounting race
AIO was adding a new context's max requests to the global total before testing if that resulting total was over the global limit. This let innocent tasks get their new limit tested along with a racing guilty task that was crossing the limit. This serializes the _nr accounting with a spinlock It also switches to using unsigned long for the global totals. Individual contexts are still limited to an unsigned int's worth of requests by the syscall interface. The problem and fix were verified with a simple program that spun creating and destroying a context while holding on to another long lived context. Before the patch a task creating a tiny context could get a spurious EAGAIN if it raced with a task creating a very large context that overran the limit. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c31
-rw-r--r--include/linux/aio.h5
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c4
3 files changed, 26 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index edfca5b7553..20bb919eb19 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@
#endif
/*------ sysctl variables----*/
-atomic_t aio_nr = ATOMIC_INIT(0); /* current system wide number of aio requests */
-unsigned aio_max_nr = 0x10000; /* system wide maximum number of aio requests */
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(aio_nr_lock);
+unsigned long aio_nr; /* current system wide number of aio requests */
+unsigned long aio_max_nr = 0x10000; /* system wide maximum number of aio requests */
/*----end sysctl variables---*/
static kmem_cache_t *kiocb_cachep;
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}
- if (nr_events > aio_max_nr)
+ if ((unsigned long)nr_events > aio_max_nr)
return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
ctx = kmem_cache_alloc(kioctx_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -233,8 +234,14 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
goto out_freectx;
/* limit the number of system wide aios */
- atomic_add(ctx->max_reqs, &aio_nr); /* undone by __put_ioctx */
- if (unlikely(atomic_read(&aio_nr) > aio_max_nr))
+ spin_lock(&aio_nr_lock);
+ if (aio_nr + ctx->max_reqs > aio_max_nr ||
+ aio_nr + ctx->max_reqs < aio_nr)
+ ctx->max_reqs = 0;
+ else
+ aio_nr += ctx->max_reqs;
+ spin_unlock(&aio_nr_lock);
+ if (ctx->max_reqs == 0)
goto out_cleanup;
/* now link into global list. kludge. FIXME */
@@ -248,8 +255,6 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
return ctx;
out_cleanup:
- atomic_sub(ctx->max_reqs, &aio_nr);
- ctx->max_reqs = 0; /* prevent __put_ioctx from sub'ing aio_nr */
__put_ioctx(ctx);
return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
@@ -374,7 +379,12 @@ void fastcall __put_ioctx(struct kioctx *ctx)
pr_debug("__put_ioctx: freeing %p\n", ctx);
kmem_cache_free(kioctx_cachep, ctx);
- atomic_sub(nr_events, &aio_nr);
+ if (nr_events) {
+ spin_lock(&aio_nr_lock);
+ BUG_ON(aio_nr - nr_events > aio_nr);
+ aio_nr -= nr_events;
+ spin_unlock(&aio_nr_lock);
+ }
}
/* aio_get_req
@@ -1258,8 +1268,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_io_setup(unsigned nr_events, aio_context_t __user *ctxp)
goto out;
ret = -EINVAL;
- if (unlikely(ctx || (int)nr_events <= 0)) {
- pr_debug("EINVAL: io_setup: ctx or nr_events > max\n");
+ if (unlikely(ctx || nr_events == 0)) {
+ pr_debug("EINVAL: io_setup: ctx %lu nr_events %u\n",
+ ctx, nr_events);
goto out;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
index 0decf66117c..403d71dcb7c 100644
--- a/include/linux/aio.h
+++ b/include/linux/aio.h
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ struct kioctx {
struct list_head active_reqs; /* used for cancellation */
struct list_head run_list; /* used for kicked reqs */
+ /* sys_io_setup currently limits this to an unsigned int */
unsigned max_reqs;
struct aio_ring_info ring_info;
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ static inline struct kiocb *list_kiocb(struct list_head *h)
}
/* for sysctl: */
-extern atomic_t aio_nr;
-extern unsigned aio_max_nr;
+extern unsigned long aio_nr;
+extern unsigned long aio_max_nr;
#endif /* __LINUX__AIO_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 8e56e249554..e1351200ce8 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ static ctl_table fs_table[] = {
.data = &aio_nr,
.maxlen = sizeof(aio_nr),
.mode = 0444,
- .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
},
{
.ctl_name = FS_AIO_MAX_NR,
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ static ctl_table fs_table[] = {
.data = &aio_max_nr,
.maxlen = sizeof(aio_max_nr),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
},
#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
{