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authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2024-09-25 11:05:16 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2024-10-22 11:16:56 +0200
commit6474353a5e3d0b2cf610153cea0c61f576a36d0a (patch)
tree1395d4b47fa1aaf0b08141610ec97a7c2c3f0d57 /fs/eventpoll.c
parent05fba0a11557dfdc1b6895f4a3fb59165669e643 (diff)
epoll: annotate racy check
Epoll relies on a racy fastpath check during __fput() in eventpoll_release() to avoid the hit of pointlessly acquiring a semaphore. Annotate that race by using WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/66edfb3c.050a0220.3195df.001a.GAE@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240925-fungieren-anbauen-79b334b00542@brauner Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: syzbot+3b6b32dc50537a49bb4a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/eventpoll.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/eventpoll.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 1ae4542f0bd8..90fbab6b6f03 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -823,7 +823,8 @@ static bool __ep_remove(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, bool force)
to_free = NULL;
head = file->f_ep;
if (head->first == &epi->fllink && !epi->fllink.next) {
- file->f_ep = NULL;
+ /* See eventpoll_release() for details. */
+ WRITE_ONCE(file->f_ep, NULL);
if (!is_file_epoll(file)) {
struct epitems_head *v;
v = container_of(head, struct epitems_head, epitems);
@@ -1603,7 +1604,8 @@ allocate:
spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
goto allocate;
}
- file->f_ep = head;
+ /* See eventpoll_release() for details. */
+ WRITE_ONCE(file->f_ep, head);
to_free = NULL;
}
hlist_add_head_rcu(&epi->fllink, file->f_ep);