Re: [PATCH 01/12] cachefiles: remove request from xarry during flush requests

From: Jingbo Xu
Date: Sun May 05 2024 - 23:49:12 EST




On 4/24/24 11:39 AM, libaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This prevents concurrency from causing access to a freed req.

Could you give more details on how the concurrent access will happen?
How could another process access the &cache->reqs xarray after it has
been flushed?

> ---
> fs/cachefiles/daemon.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c b/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c
> index 6465e2574230..ccb7b707ea4b 100644
> --- a/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c
> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c
> @@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ static void cachefiles_flush_reqs(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
> xa_for_each(xa, index, req) {
> req->error = -EIO;
> complete(&req->done);
> + __xa_erase(xa, index);
> }
> xa_unlock(xa);
>

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Thanks,
Jingbo