Re: [PATCH 1/2] aio: make kiocb->private NUll in init_sync_kiocb()

From: Joe Jin
Date: Thu May 31 2012 - 00:36:28 EST


Cc David.

On 05/31/12 12:12, Junxiao Bi wrote:
> 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_write_iter().
>
> We can't initialized this flag in ocfs2_file_write_iter() since
> it may be invoked several times by do_sync_write(). So we initialize
> it in init_sync_kiocb(), it's also useful for other similiar use of
> it in the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/aio.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> 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


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