tree 885097a564287bad1cc32039d89501e5a2e8b867
parent 451fd72219dd6f3355e2d036c598544c760ee532
author Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> 1408900445 -0400
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1408920447 -0700

aio: fix reqs_available handling

As reported by Dan Aloni, commit f8567a3845ac ("aio: fix aio request
leak when events are reaped by userspace") introduces a regression when
user code attempts to perform io_submit() with more events than are
available in the ring buffer.  Reverting that commit would reintroduce a
regression when user space event reaping is used.

Fixing this bug is a bit more involved than the previous attempts to fix
this regression.  Since we do not have a single point at which we can
count events as being reaped by user space and io_getevents(), we have
to track event completion by looking at the number of events left in the
event ring.  So long as there are as many events in the ring buffer as
there have been completion events generate, we cannot call
put_reqs_available().  The code to check for this is now placed in
refill_reqs_available().

A test program from Dan and modified by me for verifying this bug is available
at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/20140824-aio_bug.c .

Reported-by: Dan Aloni <dan@kernelim.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Dan Aloni <dan@kernelim.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # v3.16 and anything that f8567a3845ac was backported to
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>