Re: splice: infinite busy loop lockup bug

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 09:41:14PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 01:38:54PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > FWIW, my preference would be to have for_each_bvec() advance past zero-length
> > segments; I'll need to go through its uses elsewhere in the tree first, though
> > (after I grab some sleep),
> 
> Usually block layer doesn't allow/support zero bvec, however we can make
> for_each_bvec() to support it only.
> 
> Tetsuo, can you try the following patch?
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/bvec.h b/include/linux/bvec.h
> index ac0c7299d5b8..b03c793dd28d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bvec.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bvec.h
> @@ -117,11 +117,19 @@ static inline bool bvec_iter_advance(const struct bio_vec *bv,
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
> +static inline void bvec_iter_skip_zero_vec(const struct bio_vec *bv,
> +		struct bvec_iter *iter)
> +{
> +	iter->bi_idx++;
> +	iter->bi_bvec_done = 0;
> +}
> +
>  #define for_each_bvec(bvl, bio_vec, iter, start)			\
>  	for (iter = (start);						\
>  	     (iter).bi_size &&						\
> -		((bvl = bvec_iter_bvec((bio_vec), (iter))), 1);	\
> -	     bvec_iter_advance((bio_vec), &(iter), (bvl).bv_len))
> +		((bvl = bvec_iter_bvec((bio_vec), (iter))), 1);		\
> +	  (bvl).bv_len ? bvec_iter_advance((bio_vec), &(iter), (bvl).bv_len) : \
> +			bvec_iter_skip_zero_vec((bio_vec), &(iter)))

Uhm, bvec_iter_advance() already skips over zero length bio_vecs.

        while (bytes && bytes >= bv[idx].bv_len) {
                bytes -= bv[idx].bv_len;
                idx++;
        }

The problem is when the _first_ bio_vec is zero length.  Maybe something more
like this (which doesn't even compile, but hopefully makes my point):

@@ -86,12 +86,24 @@ struct bvec_iter_all {
        (mp_bvec_iter_page((bvec), (iter)) +                    \
         mp_bvec_iter_page_idx((bvec), (iter)))
 
-#define bvec_iter_bvec(bvec, iter)                             \
-((struct bio_vec) {                                            \
-       .bv_page        = bvec_iter_page((bvec), (iter)),       \
-       .bv_len         = bvec_iter_len((bvec), (iter)),        \
-       .bv_offset      = bvec_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)),     \
-})
+static inline bool bvec_iter_bvec(struct bio_vec *bv, struct bio_vec *bvec,
+               struct bvec_iter *iter)
+{
+       unsigned int idx = iter->bi_idx;
+
+       if (!iter->bi_size)
+               return false;
+
+       while (!bv[idx].bv_len)
+               idx++;
+       iter->bi_idx = idx;
+
+       bv->bv_page = bvec_iter_page(bvec, *iter);
+       bv->bv_len = bvec_iter_len(bvec, *iter);
+       bv->bv_offset = bvec_iter_offset(bvec, *iter);
+
+       return true;
+}
 
 static inline bool bvec_iter_advance(const struct bio_vec *bv,
                struct bvec_iter *iter, unsigned bytes)
@@ -119,8 +131,7 @@ static inline bool bvec_iter_advance(const struct bio_vec *bv,
 
 #define for_each_bvec(bvl, bio_vec, iter, start)                       \
        for (iter = (start);                                            \
-            (iter).bi_size &&                                          \
-               ((bvl = bvec_iter_bvec((bio_vec), (iter))), 1); \
+            bvec_iter_bvec(&(bvl), (bio_vec), &(iter));                \
             bvec_iter_advance((bio_vec), &(iter), (bvl).bv_len))
 
 /* for iterating one bio from start to end */

(I find the whole bvec handling a mess of confusing macros and would
welcome more of it being inline functions, in general).