Lukas Czerner <[email protected]> writes:

> BZ29402
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402
>
> We can hit serious mis-synchronization in bio completion path of
> blkdev_issue_zeroout() leading to a panic.
>
> The problem is that when we are going to wait_for_completion() in
> blkdev_issue_zeroout() we check if the bb.done equals issued (number of
> submitted bios). If it does, we can skip the wait_for_completition()
> and just out of the function since there is nothing to wait for.
> However, there is a ordering problem because bio_batch_end_io() is
> calling atomic_inc(&bb->done) before complete(), hence it might seem to
> blkdev_issue_zeroout() that all bios has been completed and exit. At
> this point when bio_batch_end_io() is going to call complete(bb->wait),
> bb and wait does not longer exist since it was allocated on stack in
> blkdev_issue_zeroout() ==> panic!
>
> (thread 1)                      (thread 2)
> bio_batch_end_io()              blkdev_issue_zeroout()
>   if(bb) {                      ...
>     if (bb->end_io)             ...
>       bb->end_io(bio, err);     ...
>     atomic_inc(&bb->done);      ...
>     ...                         while (issued != atomic_read(&bb.done))
>     ...                         (let issued == bb.done)
>     ...                         (do the rest of the function)
>     ...                         return ret;
>     complete(bb->wait);
>     ^^^^^^^^
>     panic
>
> We can fix this easily by simplifying bio_batch and completion counting.
>
> Also remove bio_end_io_t *end_io since it is not used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Eric Whitney <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Eric Whitney <[email protected]>
> CC: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
> CC: Dmitry Monakhov <[email protected]>
> CC: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
> ---
>  block/blk-lib.c |   19 +++++++------------
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
> index eec78be..bd3e8df 100644
> --- a/block/blk-lib.c
> +++ b/block/blk-lib.c
> @@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ struct bio_batch
>       atomic_t                done;
>       unsigned long           flags;
>       struct completion       *wait;
> -     bio_end_io_t            *end_io;
>  };
>  
>  static void bio_batch_end_io(struct bio *bio, int err)
> @@ -122,12 +121,9 @@ static void bio_batch_end_io(struct bio *bio, int err)
>               else
>                       clear_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bb->flags);
>       }
> -     if (bb) {
> -             if (bb->end_io)
> -                     bb->end_io(bio, err);
> -             atomic_inc(&bb->done);
> -             complete(bb->wait);
> -     }
> +     if (bb)
> +             if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bb->done))
> +                     complete(bb->wait);

I think bb will always be set here, no real need to check.

Anyway, I though I already added my:

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>

to this.  No?

Cheers,
Jeff

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