[PATCH RFC] io_uring: make signalfd work with io_uring (and aio) POLL

[Jens Axboe]

This is a case of "I don't really know what I'm doing, but this works
for me". Caveat emptor, but I'd love some input on this.

I got a bug report that using the poll command with signalfd doesn't
work for io_uring. The reporter also noted that it doesn't work with the
aio poll implementation either. So I took a look at it.

What happens is that the original task issues the poll request, we call
->poll() (which ends up with signalfd for this fd), and find that
nothing is pending. Then we wait, and the poll is passed to async
context. When the requested signal comes in, that worker is woken up,
and proceeds to call ->poll() again, and signalfd unsurprisingly finds
no signals pending, since it's the async worker calling it.

That's obviously no good. The below allows you to pass in the task in
the poll_table, and it does the right thing for me, signal is delivered
and the correct mask is checked in signalfd_poll().

Similar patch for aio would be trivial, of course.

Not-really-signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

---

diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index d8ea9b4f83a7..d9a4c9aac958 100644
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ struct io_poll_iocb {
 	bool				done;
 	bool				canceled;
 	struct wait_queue_entry		wait;
+	struct task_struct		*task;
 };
 
 struct io_timeout {
@@ -2021,7 +2022,10 @@ static void io_poll_complete_work(struct io_wq_work **workptr)
 	struct io_wq_work *work = *workptr;
 	struct io_kiocb *req = container_of(work, struct io_kiocb, work);
 	struct io_poll_iocb *poll = &req->poll;
-	struct poll_table_struct pt = { ._key = poll->events };
+	struct poll_table_struct pt = {
+		._key = poll->events,
+		.task = poll->task
+	};
 	struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = req->ctx;
 	struct io_kiocb *nxt = NULL;
 	__poll_t mask = 0;
@@ -2139,9 +2143,11 @@ static int io_poll_add(struct io_kiocb *req, const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,
 	poll->head = NULL;
 	poll->done = false;
 	poll->canceled = false;
+	poll->task = current;
 
 	ipt.pt._qproc = io_poll_queue_proc;
 	ipt.pt._key = poll->events;
+	ipt.pt.task = poll->task;
 	ipt.req = req;
 	ipt.error = -EINVAL; /* same as no support for IOCB_CMD_POLL */
 
diff --git a/fs/signalfd.c b/fs/signalfd.c
index 44b6845b071c..a7f31758db1a 100644
--- a/fs/signalfd.c
+++ b/fs/signalfd.c
@@ -61,16 +61,17 @@ static int signalfd_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 static __poll_t signalfd_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
 {
 	struct signalfd_ctx *ctx = file->private_data;
+	struct task_struct *tsk = wait->task ?: current;
 	__poll_t events = 0;
 
-	poll_wait(file, &current->sighand->signalfd_wqh, wait);
+	poll_wait(file, &tsk->sighand->signalfd_wqh, wait);
 
-	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	if (next_signal(&current->pending, &ctx->sigmask) ||
-	    next_signal(&current->signal->shared_pending,
+	spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
+	if (next_signal(&tsk->pending, &ctx->sigmask) ||
+	    next_signal(&tsk->signal->shared_pending,
 			&ctx->sigmask))
 		events |= EPOLLIN;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
 
 	return events;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/poll.h b/include/linux/poll.h
index 1cdc32b1f1b0..6d2b6d923b2b 100644
--- a/include/linux/poll.h
+++ b/include/linux/poll.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ typedef void (*poll_queue_proc)(struct file *, wait_queue_head_t *, struct poll_
 typedef struct poll_table_struct {
 	poll_queue_proc _qproc;
 	__poll_t _key;
+	struct task_struct *task;
 } poll_table;
 
 static inline void poll_wait(struct file * filp, wait_queue_head_t * wait_address, poll_table *p)
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ static inline void init_poll_funcptr(poll_table *pt, poll_queue_proc qproc)
 {
 	pt->_qproc = qproc;
 	pt->_key   = ~(__poll_t)0; /* all events enabled */
+	pt->task = NULL;
 }
 
 static inline bool file_can_poll(struct file *file)


-- 
Jens Axboe