[RFC PATCH 23/27] ep_insert(): move creation of wakeup source past the fl_ep_links insertion

Al Viro
2020-10-04T02:40:14Z

That's the beginning of preparations for taking f_ep_links out of struct file.
If insertion might fail, we will need a new failure exit. Having wakeup
source creation done after that point will simplify life there; ep_remove()
can (and commonly does) live with NULL epi->ws, so it can be used for
cleanup after ep_create_wakeup_source() failure. It can't be used before
the rbtree insertion, though, so if we are to unify all old failure exits,
we need to move that thing down. Then we would be free to do simple
kmem_cache_free() on the failure to insert into f_ep_links - no wakeup source
to leak on that failure exit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
fs/eventpoll.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 1efe8a1a022a..66da645d5eb4 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1356,26 +1356,16 @@ static int ep_insert(struct eventpoll *ep, const struct epoll_event *event,
user_watches = atomic_long_read(&ep->user->epoll_watches);
if (unlikely(user_watches >= max_user_watches))
return -ENOSPC;
- if (!(epi = kmem_cache_alloc(epi_cache, GFP_KERNEL)))
+ if (!(epi = kmem_cache_zalloc(epi_cache, GFP_KERNEL)))
return -ENOMEM;

/* Item initialization follow here ... */
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&epi->rdllink);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&epi->fllink);
- epi->pwqlist = NULL;
epi->ep = ep;
ep_set_ffd(&epi->ffd, tfile, fd);
epi->event = *event;
epi->next = EP_UNACTIVE_PTR;
- if (epi->event.events & EPOLLWAKEUP) {
- error = ep_create_wakeup_source(epi);
- if (error) {
- kmem_cache_free(epi_cache, epi);
- return error;
- }
- } else {
- RCU_INIT_POINTER(epi->ws, NULL);
- }

atomic_long_inc(&ep->user->epoll_watches);

@@ -1400,6 +1390,14 @@ static int ep_insert(struct eventpoll *ep, const struct epoll_event *event,
return -EINVAL;
}

+ if (epi->event.events & EPOLLWAKEUP) {
+ error = ep_create_wakeup_source(epi);
+ if (error) {
+ ep_remove(ep, epi);
+ return error;
+ }
+ }
+
/* Initialize the poll table using the queue callback */
epq.epi = epi;
init_poll_funcptr(&epq.pt, ep_ptable_queue_proc);
--
2.11.0