[KVM-RFC PATCH 1/2] eventfd: send POLLHUP on f_ops->release

Gregory Haskins
2009-06-02T15:16:04Z

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Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH v10] kvm: add support for irqfd
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On Wed, 27 May 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:06:50AM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:30:49AM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> > >
> > >> +static int
> > >> +kvm_assign_irqfd(struct kvm *kvm, int fd, int gsi)
> > >> +{
> > >> + struct _irqfd *irqfd;
> > >> + struct file *file = NULL;
> > >> + int ret;
> > >> +
> > >> + irqfd = kzalloc(sizeof(*irqfd), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >> + if (!irqfd)
> > >> + return -ENOMEM;
> > >> +
> > >> + irqfd->kvm = kvm;
> > >> + irqfd->gsi = gsi;
> > >> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&irqfd->list);
> > >> + INIT_WORK(&irqfd->work, irqfd_inject);
> > >> +
> > >> + /*
> > >> + * Embed the file* lifetime in the irqfd.
> > >> + */
> > >> + file = fget(fd);
> > >> + if (IS_ERR(file)) {
> > >> + ret = PTR_ERR(file);
> > >> + goto fail;
> > >> + }
> > >>
> > >
> > > So we get a reference to a file, and unless the user is nice to us, it
> > > will only be dropped when kvm char device file is closed?
> > > I think this will deadlock if the fd in question is the open kvm char device.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Hmm...I hadn't considered this possibility, though I am not sure if it
> > would cause a deadlock in the pattern you suggest. It seems more like
> > it would result in, at worst, an extra reference to itself (and thus a
> > leak) rather than a deadlock...
> >
> > I digress. In either case, perhaps I should s/fget/eventfd_fget to at
> > least limit the type of fd to eventfd. I was trying to be "slick" by
> > not needing the eventfd_fget() exported, but I am going to need to
> > export it later anyway for iosignalfd, so its probably a moot point.
> >
> > Thanks Michael,
> > -Greg
> >
>
> This only works as long as eventfd does not do fget on some fd as well.
> Which it does not do now, and may never do - but we create a fragile
> system this way.
>
> I think it's really wrong, fundamentally, to keep a reference to a
> file until another file is closed, unless you are code under fs/.
> We will get nasty circular references sooner or later.
>
> Isn't the real reason we use fd to be able to support the same interface
> on top of both kvm and lguest?
> And if so, wouldn't some kind of bus be a better solution?

Another solution, that I proposed in the past, is having irqfd hold no
references to the eventfd. It's just register (holding an eventfd-get())
for events (in the way that currently does), notice the POLLHUP, unchain
from it, and propagate the eventfd-close event to whatever the irqfd logic
is supposed to.

- Davide

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
---

fs/eventfd.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c
index 3f0e197..72f5f8d 100644
--- a/fs/eventfd.c
+++ b/fs/eventfd.c
@@ -61,7 +61,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(eventfd_signal);

static int eventfd_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- kfree(file->private_data);
+ struct eventfd_ctx *ctx = file->private_data;
+
+ /*
+ * No need to hold the lock here, since we are on the file cleanup
+ * path and the ones still attached to the wait queue will be
+ * serialized by wake_up_locked_poll().
+ */
+ wake_up_locked_poll(&ctx->wqh, POLLHUP);
+ kfree(ctx);
return 0;
}