epoll: prevent missed events on EPOLL_CTL_MOD

EPOLL_CTL_MOD sets the interest mask before calling f_op->poll() to
ensure events are not missed.  Since the modifications to the interest
mask are not protected by the same lock as ep_poll_callback, we need to
ensure the change is visible to other CPUs calling ep_poll_callback.

We also need to ensure f_op->poll() has an up-to-date view of past
events which occured before we modified the interest mask.  So this
barrier also pairs with the barrier in wq_has_sleeper().

This should guarantee either ep_poll_callback or f_op->poll() (or both)
will notice the readiness of a recently-ready/modified item.

This issue was encountered by Andreas Voellmy and Junchang(Jason) Wang in:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1408782/

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Voellmy <andreas.voellmy@yale.edu>
Tested-by: "Junchang(Jason) Wang" <junchang.wang@yale.edu>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index be56b21435f8..9fec1836057a 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ static int ep_modify(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, struct epoll_even
          * otherwise we might miss an event that happens between the
          * f_op->poll() call and the new event set registering.
          */
-        epi->event.events = event->events;
+        epi->event.events = event->events; /* need barrier below */
         pt._key = event->events;
         epi->event.data = event->data; /* protected by mtx */
         if (epi->event.events & EPOLLWAKEUP) {
@@ -1324,6 +1324,26 @@ static int ep_modify(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, struct epoll_even
         }
 
         /*
+         * The following barrier has two effects:
+         *
+         * 1) Flush epi changes above to other CPUs.  This ensures
+         *    we do not miss events from ep_poll_callback if an
+         *    event occurs immediately after we call f_op->poll().
+         *    We need this because we did not take ep->lock while
+         *    changing epi above (but ep_poll_callback does take
+         *    ep->lock).
+         *
+         * 2) We also need to ensure we do not miss _past_ events
+         *    when calling f_op->poll().  This barrier also
+         *    pairs with the barrier in wq_has_sleeper (see
+         *    comments for wq_has_sleeper).
+         *
+         * This barrier will now guarantee ep_poll_callback or f_op->poll
+         * (or both) will notice the readiness of an item.
+         */
+        smp_mb();
+
+        /*
          * Get current event bits. We can safely use the file* here because
          * its usage count has been increased by the caller of this function.
          */