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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3.4-rc5] block: iocontext->nr_tasks should be initialized to one
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 20:02:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA0253F.4000302@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120501161729.GV26595@google.com>

On 2012-05-01 18:17, Tejun Heo wrote:
> create_task_io_context() left ioc->nr_tasks at zero; however, a newly
> created ioc should have its nr_tasks initialized to one as it begins
> attached to the task creating it.
> 
> This affects only CLONE_IO which currently doesn't seem to have any
> actual user.  Sasha triggered WARN_ON_ONCE() in ioc_task_link() using
> syscall fuzzer.  Even when it happens, the failure mode isn't critical
> (blk-cgroup may allow attaching a CLONE_IO'd task to a cgroup when it
> shouldn't and blkcg limits may behave weirdly).

CLONE_IO is an exported interface, it can be set from clone(2).
Otherwise Sasha would not have hit this :-)

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-01 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-01 12:05 WARNING: at include/linux/iocontext.h:140 copy_io+0xb9/0x130() Sasha Levin
2012-05-01 16:17 ` [PATCH v3.4-rc5] block: iocontext->nr_tasks should be initialized to one Tejun Heo
2012-05-01 18:02   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2012-05-01 18:09     ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-01 18:18       ` Jens Axboe
2012-05-01 18:31         ` Jeff Moyer
2012-05-01 18:36           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-01 18:48             ` Jeff Moyer
2012-05-01 18:59               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-01 19:04                 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-05-01 19:08                   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-01 18:37           ` Jens Axboe
2012-05-01 18:50             ` Jeff Moyer
2012-05-01 19:03               ` Jens Axboe
2012-05-01 18:04   ` Jens Axboe
2012-05-01 18:06     ` Tejun Heo

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