From: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
commit fe0a916c1eae8e17e86c3753d13919177d63ed7e upstream.
Checking for the lack of epitems refering to the epoll we want to insert into is not enough; we might have an insertion of that epoll into another one that has already collected the set of files to recheck for excessive reverse paths, but hasn't gotten to creating/inserting the epitem for it.
However, any such insertion in progress can be detected - it will update the generation count in our epoll when it's done looking through it for files to check. That gets done under ->mtx of our epoll and that allows us to detect that safely.
We are *not* holding epmutex here, so the generation count is not stable. However, since both the update of ep->gen by loop check and (later) insertion into ->f_ep_link are done with ep->mtx held, we are fine - the sequence is grab epmutex bump loop_check_gen ... grab tep->mtx // 1 tep->gen = loop_check_gen ... drop tep->mtx // 2 ... grab tep->mtx // 3 ... insert into ->f_ep_link ... drop tep->mtx // 4 bump loop_check_gen drop epmutex and if the fastpath check in another thread happens for that eventpoll, it can come * before (1) - in that case fastpath is just fine * after (4) - we'll see non-empty ->f_ep_link, slow path taken * between (2) and (3) - loop_check_gen is stable, with ->mtx providing barriers and we end up taking slow path.
Note that ->f_ep_link emptiness check is slightly racy - we are protected against insertions into that list, but removals can happen right under us. Not a problem - in the worst case we'll end up taking a slow path for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/eventpoll.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -2175,6 +2175,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, in mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, 0); if (op == EPOLL_CTL_ADD) { if (!list_empty(&f.file->f_ep_links) || + ep->gen == loop_check_gen || is_file_epoll(tf.file)) { full_check = 1; mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx);