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The libaio test harness turned up a problem whereby lookup_ioctx on a
bogus io context was returning the 1 valid io context from the list
(harness/cases/3.p).

Because of that, an extra put_iocontext was done, and when the process
exited, it hit a BUG_ON in the put_iocontext macro called from exit_aio
(since we expect a users count of 1 and instead get 0).

The problem was introduced by "aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless"
(commit abf137d).

Thanks to Zach for pointing out that hlist_for_each_entry_rcu will not
return with a NULL tpos at the end of the loop, even if the entry was
not found.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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JeffMoyer authored and torvalds committed Mar 19, 2009
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions fs/aio.c
Expand Up @@ -587,20 +587,21 @@ int aio_put_req(struct kiocb *req)
static struct kioctx *lookup_ioctx(unsigned long ctx_id)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
struct kioctx *ctx = NULL;
struct kioctx *ctx, *ret = NULL;
struct hlist_node *n;

rcu_read_lock();

hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(ctx, n, &mm->ioctx_list, list) {
if (ctx->user_id == ctx_id && !ctx->dead) {
get_ioctx(ctx);
ret = ctx;
break;
}
}

rcu_read_unlock();
return ctx;
return ret;
}

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