[PATCH] Fix lock inversion aio_kick_handler()

lockdep found a AB BC CA lock inversion in retry-based AIO:

1) The task struct's alloc_lock (A) is acquired in process context with
   interrupts enabled.  An interrupt might arrive and call wake_up() which
   grabs the wait queue's q->lock (B).

2) When performing retry-based AIO the AIO core registers
   aio_wake_function() as the wake funtion for iocb->ki_wait.  It is called
   with the wait queue's q->lock (B) held and then tries to add the iocb to
   the run list after acquiring the ctx_lock (C).

3) aio_kick_handler() holds the ctx_lock (C) while acquiring the
   alloc_lock (A) via lock_task() and unuse_mm().  Lockdep emits a warning
   saying that we're trying to connect the irq-safe q->lock to the
   irq-unsafe alloc_lock via ctx_lock.

This fixes the inversion by calling unuse_mm() in the AIO kick handing path
after we've released the ctx_lock.  As Ben LaHaise pointed out __put_ioctx
could set ctx->mm to NULL, so we must only access ctx->mm while we have the
lock.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 5f577a63bdf0..ee20fc4240e0 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -599,9 +599,6 @@ static void use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
  *      by the calling kernel thread
  *      (Note: this routine is intended to be called only
  *      from a kernel thread context)
- *
- * Comments: Called with ctx->ctx_lock held. This nests
- * task_lock instead ctx_lock.
  */
 static void unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
@@ -850,14 +847,16 @@ static void aio_kick_handler(struct work_struct *work)
 {
         struct kioctx *ctx = container_of(work, struct kioctx, wq.work);
         mm_segment_t oldfs = get_fs();
+        struct mm_struct *mm;
         int requeue;
 
         set_fs(USER_DS);
         use_mm(ctx->mm);
         spin_lock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
         requeue =__aio_run_iocbs(ctx);
-        unuse_mm(ctx->mm);
+        mm = ctx->mm;
         spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
+        unuse_mm(mm);
         set_fs(oldfs);
         /*
          * we're in a worker thread already, don't use queue_delayed_work,