Re: Re: [PATCH v2] io_uring: releasing CPU resources when polling

From: hexue
Date: Mon Apr 22 2024 - 23:43:57 EST


On Mon, Apr 19, 2024 at 16:09 Ammar Faizi wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM hexue wrote:
>> +void init_hybrid_poll_info(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_kiocb *req)
>> +{
>> + u32 index;
>> +
>> + index = req->file->f_inode->i_rdev;
>> + struct iopoll_info *entry = xa_load(&ctx->poll_array, index);
>> +
>> + if (!entry) {
>> + entry = kmalloc(sizeof(struct iopoll_info), GFP_KERNEL);
>> + entry->last_runtime = 0;
>> + entry->last_irqtime = 0;
>> + xa_store(&ctx->poll_array, index, entry, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + }
>
>GFP_KERNEL may fail; you must check for failure. Otherwise, it could
>lead to NULL pointer dereference.
>

yes, thanks for your correction, I will fix this and resubmit v3 patch.