On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:01:30PM +0800, Minfei Huang wrote:
> The io address in callback function will become the danging point,
> cause by the thread of sync io wakes up by other threads
> and return to relieve the io address,

Yes, well found.  I prefer the following fix however.

- Joe



Author: Joe Thornber <e...@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 27 15:49:29 2014 +0100

    [dm-io] Fix a race condition in the wake up code for sync_io
    
    There's a race condition between the atomic_dec_and_test(&io->count)
    in dec_count() and the waking of the sync_io() thread.  If the thread
    is spuriously woken immediately after the decrement it may exit,
    making the on the stack io struct invalid, yet the dec_count could
    still be using it.
    
    There are smaller fixes than the one here (eg, just take the io object
    off the stack).  But I feel this code could use a clean up.
    
    - simplify dec_count().
    
      - It always calls a callback fn now.
      - It always frees the io object back to the pool.
    
    - sync_io()
    
      - Take the io object off the stack and allocate it from the pool the
        same as async_io.
      - Use a completion object rather than an explicit io_schedule()
        loop.  The callback triggers the completion.
    
    Reported by: Minfei Huang

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-io.c b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
index 3842ac7..a0982e81 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-io.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/device-mapper.h>
 
 #include <linux/bio.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@ struct dm_io_client {
 struct io {
        unsigned long error_bits;
        atomic_t count;
-       struct task_struct *sleeper;
        struct dm_io_client *client;
        io_notify_fn callback;
        void *context;
@@ -111,28 +111,27 @@ static void retrieve_io_and_region_from_bio(struct bio 
*bio, struct io **io,
  * We need an io object to keep track of the number of bios that
  * have been dispatched for a particular io.
  *---------------------------------------------------------------*/
-static void dec_count(struct io *io, unsigned int region, int error)
+static void complete_io(struct io *io)
 {
-       if (error)
-               set_bit(region, &io->error_bits);
+       unsigned long error_bits = io->error_bits;
+       io_notify_fn fn = io->callback;
+       void *context = io->context;
 
-       if (atomic_dec_and_test(&io->count)) {
-               if (io->vma_invalidate_size)
-                       invalidate_kernel_vmap_range(io->vma_invalidate_address,
-                                                    io->vma_invalidate_size);
+       if (io->vma_invalidate_size)
+               invalidate_kernel_vmap_range(io->vma_invalidate_address,
+                                            io->vma_invalidate_size);
 
-               if (io->sleeper)
-                       wake_up_process(io->sleeper);
+       mempool_free(io, io->client->pool);
+       fn(error_bits, context);
+}
 
-               else {
-                       unsigned long r = io->error_bits;
-                       io_notify_fn fn = io->callback;
-                       void *context = io->context;
+static void dec_count(struct io *io, unsigned int region, int error)
+{
+       if (error)
+               set_bit(region, &io->error_bits);
 
-                       mempool_free(io, io->client->pool);
-                       fn(r, context);
-               }
-       }
+       if (atomic_dec_and_test(&io->count))
+               complete_io(io);
 }
 
 static void endio(struct bio *bio, int error)
@@ -375,48 +374,49 @@ static void dispatch_io(int rw, unsigned int num_regions,
        dec_count(io, 0, 0);
 }
 
+struct sync_io {
+       unsigned long error_bits;
+       struct completion complete;
+};
+
+static void sync_complete(unsigned long error, void *context)
+{
+       struct sync_io *sio = context;
+       sio->error_bits = error;
+       complete(&sio->complete);
+}
+
 static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client *client, unsigned int num_regions,
                   struct dm_io_region *where, int rw, struct dpages *dp,
                   unsigned long *error_bits)
 {
-       /*
-        * gcc <= 4.3 can't do the alignment for stack variables, so we must
-        * align it on our own.
-        * volatile prevents the optimizer from removing or reusing
-        * "io_" field from the stack frame (allowed in ANSI C).
-        */
-       volatile char io_[sizeof(struct io) + __alignof__(struct io) - 1];
-       struct io *io = (struct io *)PTR_ALIGN(&io_, __alignof__(struct io));
+       struct io *io;
+       struct sync_io sio;
 
        if (num_regions > 1 && (rw & RW_MASK) != WRITE) {
                WARN_ON(1);
                return -EIO;
        }
 
+       init_completion(&sio.complete);
+
+       io = mempool_alloc(client->pool, GFP_NOIO);
        io->error_bits = 0;
        atomic_set(&io->count, 1); /* see dispatch_io() */
-       io->sleeper = current;
+       io->callback = sync_complete;
+       io->context = &sio;
        io->client = client;
 
        io->vma_invalidate_address = dp->vma_invalidate_address;
        io->vma_invalidate_size = dp->vma_invalidate_size;
 
        dispatch_io(rw, num_regions, where, dp, io, 1);
-
-       while (1) {
-               set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-
-               if (!atomic_read(&io->count))
-                       break;
-
-               io_schedule();
-       }
-       set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+       wait_for_completion_io(&sio.complete);
 
        if (error_bits)
-               *error_bits = io->error_bits;
+               *error_bits = sio.error_bits;
 
-       return io->error_bits ? -EIO : 0;
+       return sio.error_bits ? -EIO : 0;
 }
 
 static int async_io(struct dm_io_client *client, unsigned int num_regions,
@@ -434,7 +434,6 @@ static int async_io(struct dm_io_client *client, unsigned 
int num_regions,
        io = mempool_alloc(client->pool, GFP_NOIO);
        io->error_bits = 0;
        atomic_set(&io->count, 1); /* see dispatch_io() */
-       io->sleeper = NULL;
        io->client = client;
        io->callback = fn;
        io->context = context;

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