[PATCH] aio: fix the "too late munmap()" race

[Al Viro]

Current code has put_ioctx() called asynchronously from aio_fput_routine();
that's done *after* we have killed the request that used to pin ioctx,
so there's nothing to stop io_destroy() waiting in wait_for_all_aios()
from progressing.  As the result, we can end up with async call of
put_ioctx() being the last one and possibly happening during exit_mmap()
or elf_core_dump(), neither of which expects stray munmap() being done
to them...

We do need to prevent _freeing_ ioctx until aio_fput_routine() is done
with that, but that's all we care about - neither io_destroy() nor
exit_aio() will progress past wait_for_all_aios() until aio_fput_routine()
does really_put_req(), so the ioctx teardown won't be done until then
and we don't care about the contents of ioctx past that point.

Since actual freeing of these suckers is RCU-delayed, we don't need to
bump ioctx refcount when request goes into list for async removal.
All we need is rcu_read_lock held just over the ->ctx_lock-protected
area in aio_fput_routine().

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
[on top of the previous patch, applies to anything past 2008 when freeing
via call_rcu() went in; earlier versions just need kmem_cache_free() done
via call_rcu() as commit abf137dd7712132ee56d5b3143c2ff61a72a5faa does,
except that we don't really need to delay playing with aio_nr - mainline
also will be better off by not bothering with that]
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index f6578cb..8cf3796 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -228,12 +228,6 @@ static void __put_ioctx(struct kioctx *ctx)
 	call_rcu(&ctx->rcu_head, ctx_rcu_free);
 }
 
-static inline void get_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
-{
-	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&kioctx->users) <= 0);
-	atomic_inc(&kioctx->users);
-}
-
 static inline int try_get_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
 {
 	return atomic_inc_not_zero(&kioctx->users);
@@ -609,11 +603,16 @@ static void aio_fput_routine(struct work_struct *data)
 			fput(req->ki_filp);
 
 		/* Link the iocb into the context's free list */
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		spin_lock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
 		really_put_req(ctx, req);
+		/*
+		 * at that point ctx might've been killed, but actual
+		 * freeing is RCU'd
+		 */
 		spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 
-		put_ioctx(ctx);
 		spin_lock_irq(&fput_lock);
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irq(&fput_lock);
@@ -644,7 +643,6 @@ static int __aio_put_req(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb *req)
 	 * this function will be executed w/out any aio kthread wakeup.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!fput_atomic(req->ki_filp))) {
-		get_ioctx(ctx);
 		spin_lock(&fput_lock);
 		list_add(&req->ki_list, &fput_head);
 		spin_unlock(&fput_lock);
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