tree d306821837152a8c772591a9bf136e5e091a7a31
parent 43cdff92ad47e0ca024c8a07d29f9bb6119e759c
author Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> 1167439622 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> 1167504954 -0800

[PATCH] Fix lock inversion aio_kick_handler()

lockdep found a AB BC CA lock inversion in retry-based AIO:

1) The task struct's alloc_lock (A) is acquired in process context with
   interrupts enabled.  An interrupt might arrive and call wake_up() which
   grabs the wait queue's q->lock (B).

2) When performing retry-based AIO the AIO core registers
   aio_wake_function() as the wake funtion for iocb->ki_wait.  It is called
   with the wait queue's q->lock (B) held and then tries to add the iocb to
   the run list after acquiring the ctx_lock (C).

3) aio_kick_handler() holds the ctx_lock (C) while acquiring the
   alloc_lock (A) via lock_task() and unuse_mm().  Lockdep emits a warning
   saying that we're trying to connect the irq-safe q->lock to the
   irq-unsafe alloc_lock via ctx_lock.

This fixes the inversion by calling unuse_mm() in the AIO kick handing path
after we've released the ctx_lock.  As Ben LaHaise pointed out __put_ioctx
could set ctx->mm to NULL, so we must only access ctx->mm while we have the
lock.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>