[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] Initialize unaligned I/O bit to clear

[Junxiao Bi]

Hi Goldwyn,

Not the correct way to fix this issue. The root cause of your issue is
kiocb->private is not init well. And it had been fixed in commit
2dfd06036ba7ae8e7be2daf5a2fff1dac42390bf.

commit 2dfd06036ba7ae8e7be2daf5a2fff1dac42390bf
Author: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 27 17:09:54 2012 +0800

    aio: make kiocb->private NUll in init_sync_kiocb()
   
    Ocfs2 uses kiocb.*private as a flag of unsigned long size. In
    commit a11f7e6 ocfs2: serialize unaligned aio, the unaligned
    io flag is involved in it to serialize the unaligned aio. As
    *private is not initialized in init_sync_kiocb() of do_sync_write(),
    this unaligned io flag may be unexpectly set in an aligned dio.
    And this will cause OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_unaligned_aio decreased
    to -1 in ocfs2_dio_end_io(), thus the following unaligned dio
    will hang forever at ocfs2_aiodio_wait() in ocfs2_file_aio_write().
   
    Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com>
    Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
    Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer at redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec at evilplan.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
index 2314ad8..b1a520e 100644
--- a/include/linux/aio.h
+++ b/include/linux/aio.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ struct kiocb {
                (x)->ki_dtor = NULL;                    \
                (x)->ki_obj.tsk = tsk;                  \
                (x)->ki_user_data = 0;                  \
+               (x)->private = NULL;                    \
        } while (0)
 
 #define AIO_RING_MAGIC                 0xa10a10a1

Thanks,
Junxiao.


On 12/27/2012 06:52 AM, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> The fields of kiocb received in ocfs2_file_aio_write can be
> uninitialized/non-zero. This could result in UNALIGED_AIO bit in
> iocb->private set. This causes the oi->ip_unaligned_aio to decrement,
> well below zero blocking future AIO.
>
> Clear unaligned bit to fix this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn at suse.de>
>
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> index 37d313e..d3bc462 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> @@ -2254,6 +2254,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
>
>  	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
>
> +	ocfs2_iocb_clear_unaligned_aio(iocb);
>  	ocfs2_iocb_clear_sem_locked(iocb);
>
>  relock:
>
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