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block: fix mis-synchronisation in blkdev_issue_zeroout()
authorLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:23:53 +0000 (10:23 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:49:58 +0000 (12:49 -0700)
commit7e676247795f86efe5ca97c556f9c21415f815ee
treebcd230b95923f4930f09558f16dd4c3e8fbb33d8
parent7cc775c711787ca3a1c113c14f6105d2f89f965c
block: fix mis-synchronisation in blkdev_issue_zeroout()

commit 0aeea18964173715a1037034ef6838198f319319 upstream.

BZ29402
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402

We can hit serious mis-synchronization in bio completion path of
blkdev_issue_zeroout() leading to a panic.

The problem is that when we are going to wait_for_completion() in
blkdev_issue_zeroout() we check if the bb.done equals issued (number of
submitted bios). If it does, we can skip the wait_for_completition()
and just out of the function since there is nothing to wait for.
However, there is a ordering problem because bio_batch_end_io() is
calling atomic_inc(&bb->done) before complete(), hence it might seem to
blkdev_issue_zeroout() that all bios has been completed and exit. At
this point when bio_batch_end_io() is going to call complete(bb->wait),
bb and wait does not longer exist since it was allocated on stack in
blkdev_issue_zeroout() ==> panic!

(thread 1)                      (thread 2)
bio_batch_end_io()              blkdev_issue_zeroout()
  if(bb) {                      ...
    if (bb->end_io)             ...
      bb->end_io(bio, err);     ...
    atomic_inc(&bb->done);      ...
    ...                         while (issued != atomic_read(&bb.done))
    ...                         (let issued == bb.done)
    ...                         (do the rest of the function)
    ...                         return ret;
    complete(bb->wait);
    ^^^^^^^^
    panic

We can fix this easily by simplifying bio_batch and completion counting.

Also remove bio_end_io_t *end_io since it is not used.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Tested-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
block/blk-lib.c