Re: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

[Zach Brown]

> If invalidate_inode_pages2_range() will return EIOCBRETRY as the patch
> "aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy"

Sorry Leonid, this patch is not safe.

It returns -EIOCBRETRY without guaranteeing that kick_iocb() will be  
called.  This can lead to operations hanging, both AIO and calls that  
come through do_sync_{read,write}.

It overwrites -EIOCBQUEUED, leading to an aio_complete() while a  
retry is happening.  This can lead to reference count confusion.   
Double-frees, referencing freed memory, that kind of thing.  This  
isn't a new problem.  The current code that overwrites with -EIO has  
this problem.  But moving to -EIOCBRETRY does introduce new behaviour  
of aio_complete() and the retry path racing.

I'll have a candidate patch to address the problem of EIO being  
raised on the way back up from a path which has returned -EIOCBQUEUED.

- z
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