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| author | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2013-01-01 21:20:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-01-17 08:43:59 -0800 |
| commit | 93b40265d0c287271b19320574a76070d76d5a3b (patch) | |
| tree | 4c5e6c057f498656454e6b6d0ffe47acfeaf7d8b | |
| parent | b18401af7f51cddd5d2e03c9b800ba7dd60f18a0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-93b40265d0c287271b19320574a76070d76d5a3b.tar.gz lwn-93b40265d0c287271b19320574a76070d76d5a3b.zip | |
epoll: prevent missed events on EPOLL_CTL_MOD
commit 128dd1759d96ad36c379240f8b9463e8acfd37a1 upstream.
EPOLL_CTL_MOD sets the interest mask before calling f_op->poll() to
ensure events are not missed. Since the modifications to the interest
mask are not protected by the same lock as ep_poll_callback, we need to
ensure the change is visible to other CPUs calling ep_poll_callback.
We also need to ensure f_op->poll() has an up-to-date view of past
events which occured before we modified the interest mask. So this
barrier also pairs with the barrier in wq_has_sleeper().
This should guarantee either ep_poll_callback or f_op->poll() (or both)
will notice the readiness of a recently-ready/modified item.
This issue was encountered by Andreas Voellmy and Junchang(Jason) Wang in:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1408782/
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Voellmy <andreas.voellmy@yale.edu>
Tested-by: "Junchang(Jason) Wang" <junchang.wang@yale.edu>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/eventpoll.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index 35a852a2682f..35a1a614bfdd 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1197,10 +1197,30 @@ static int ep_modify(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, struct epoll_even * otherwise we might miss an event that happens between the * f_op->poll() call and the new event set registering. */ - epi->event.events = event->events; + epi->event.events = event->events; /* need barrier below */ epi->event.data = event->data; /* protected by mtx */ /* + * The following barrier has two effects: + * + * 1) Flush epi changes above to other CPUs. This ensures + * we do not miss events from ep_poll_callback if an + * event occurs immediately after we call f_op->poll(). + * We need this because we did not take ep->lock while + * changing epi above (but ep_poll_callback does take + * ep->lock). + * + * 2) We also need to ensure we do not miss _past_ events + * when calling f_op->poll(). This barrier also + * pairs with the barrier in wq_has_sleeper (see + * comments for wq_has_sleeper). + * + * This barrier will now guarantee ep_poll_callback or f_op->poll + * (or both) will notice the readiness of an item. + */ + smp_mb(); + + /* * Get current event bits. We can safely use the file* here because * its usage count has been increased by the caller of this function. */ |