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[1/2] sunrpc/cache: remove races with queuing an upcall.

Message ID 20130226063641.6063.80045.stgit@notabene.brown (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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NeilBrown Feb. 26, 2013, 6:36 a.m. UTC
We currently queue an upcall after setting CACHE_PENDING,
and dequeue after clearing CACHE_PENDING.
So a request should only be present when CACHE_PENDING is set.

However we don't combine the test and the enqueue/dequeue in
a protected region, so it is possible (if unlikely) for a race
to result in a request being queued without CACHE_PENDING set,
or a request to be absent despite CACHE_PENDING.

So: include a test for CACHE_PENDING inside the regions of
enqueue and dequeue where queue_lock is held, and abort
the operation if the value is not as expected.

With this, it perfectly safe and correct to:
 - call cache_dequeue() if and only if we have just
   cleared CACHE_PENDING
 - call sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall() (via cache_make_upcall)
   if and only if we have just set CACHE_PENDING.

Reported-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---
 net/sunrpc/cache.c |   16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)



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Patch

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 9afa439..b48c8ef 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -1022,6 +1022,9 @@  static void cache_dequeue(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *ch)
 			struct cache_request *cr = container_of(cq, struct cache_request, q);
 			if (cr->item != ch)
 				continue;
+			if (test_bit(CACHE_PENDING, &ch->flags))
+				/* Lost a race and it is pending again */
+				break;
 			if (cr->readers != 0)
 				continue;
 			list_del(&cr->q.list);
@@ -1151,6 +1154,7 @@  int sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h,
 	struct cache_request *crq;
 	char *bp;
 	int len;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (!cache_listeners_exist(detail)) {
 		warn_no_listener(detail);
@@ -1182,10 +1186,18 @@  int sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h,
 	crq->len = PAGE_SIZE - len;
 	crq->readers = 0;
 	spin_lock(&queue_lock);
-	list_add_tail(&crq->q.list, &detail->queue);
+	if (test_bit(CACHE_PENDING, &h->flags))
+		list_add_tail(&crq->q.list, &detail->queue);
+	else
+		/* Lost a race, no longer PENDING, so don't enqueue */
+		ret = -EAGAIN;
 	spin_unlock(&queue_lock);
 	wake_up(&queue_wait);
-	return 0;
+	if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
+		kfree(buf);
+		kfree(crq);
+	}
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall);