Patch "fs/aio: Add explicit RCU grace period when freeing kioctx" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    fs/aio: Add explicit RCU grace period when freeing kioctx

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     fs-aio-add-explicit-rcu-grace-period-when-freeing-kioctx.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a6d7cff472eea87d96899a20fa718d2bab7109f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:10:17 -0700
Subject: fs/aio: Add explicit RCU grace period when freeing kioctx

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

commit a6d7cff472eea87d96899a20fa718d2bab7109f3 upstream.

While fixing refcounting, e34ecee2ae79 ("aio: Fix a trinity splat")
incorrectly removed explicit RCU grace period before freeing kioctx.
The intention seems to be depending on the internal RCU grace periods
of percpu_ref; however, percpu_ref uses a different flavor of RCU,
sched-RCU.  This can lead to kioctx being freed while RCU read
protected dereferences are still in progress.

Fix it by updating free_ioctx() to go through call_rcu() explicitly.

v2: Comment added to explain double bouncing.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Fixes: e34ecee2ae79 ("aio: Fix a trinity splat")
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/aio.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ struct kioctx {
 	struct page		**ring_pages;
 	long			nr_pages;
 
-	struct work_struct	free_work;
+	struct rcu_head		free_rcu;
+	struct work_struct	free_work;	/* see free_ioctx() */
 
 	/*
 	 * signals when all in-flight requests are done
@@ -581,6 +582,12 @@ static int kiocb_cancel(struct aio_kiocb
 	return cancel(&kiocb->common);
 }
 
+/*
+ * free_ioctx() should be RCU delayed to synchronize against the RCU
+ * protected lookup_ioctx() and also needs process context to call
+ * aio_free_ring(), so the double bouncing through kioctx->free_rcu and
+ * ->free_work.
+ */
 static void free_ioctx(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct kioctx *ctx = container_of(work, struct kioctx, free_work);
@@ -594,6 +601,14 @@ static void free_ioctx(struct work_struc
 	kmem_cache_free(kioctx_cachep, ctx);
 }
 
+static void free_ioctx_rcufn(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+	struct kioctx *ctx = container_of(head, struct kioctx, free_rcu);
+
+	INIT_WORK(&ctx->free_work, free_ioctx);
+	schedule_work(&ctx->free_work);
+}
+
 static void free_ioctx_reqs(struct percpu_ref *ref)
 {
 	struct kioctx *ctx = container_of(ref, struct kioctx, reqs);
@@ -602,8 +617,8 @@ static void free_ioctx_reqs(struct percp
 	if (ctx->rq_wait && atomic_dec_and_test(&ctx->rq_wait->count))
 		complete(&ctx->rq_wait->comp);
 
-	INIT_WORK(&ctx->free_work, free_ioctx);
-	schedule_work(&ctx->free_work);
+	/* Synchronize against RCU protected table->table[] dereferences */
+	call_rcu(&ctx->free_rcu, free_ioctx_rcufn);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -825,7 +840,7 @@ static int kill_ioctx(struct mm_struct *
 	table->table[ctx->id] = NULL;
 	spin_unlock(&mm->ioctx_lock);
 
-	/* percpu_ref_kill() will do the necessary call_rcu() */
+	/* free_ioctx_reqs() will do the necessary RCU synchronization */
 	wake_up_all(&ctx->wait);
 
 	/*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@kernel.org are

queue-4.9/fs-aio-add-explicit-rcu-grace-period-when-freeing-kioctx.patch
queue-4.9/fs-aio-use-rcu-accessors-for-kioctx_table-table.patch