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From: David Laight <[email protected]>
To: 'Pavel Begunkov' <[email protected]>,
	Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
	"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] io_uring: fix iovec leaks
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:07:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03aa734fcea29805635689cc2f1aa648f23b5cd3.1581102250.git.asml.silence@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Begunkov
> Sent: 07 February 2020 19:05
> Allocated iovec is freed only in io_{read,write,send,recv)(), and just
> leaves it if an error occured. There are plenty of such cases:
> - cancellation of non-head requests
> - fail grabbing files in __io_queue_sqe()
> - set REQ_F_NOWAIT and returning in __io_queue_sqe()
> - etc.
> 
> Add REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP, which will force such requests with custom
> allocated resourses go through cleanup handlers on put.

This looks horribly fragile.

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-11 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 19:04 [PATCH] io_uring: fix iovec leaks Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-07 19:09 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-07 20:40   ` Jens Axboe
2020-02-11 10:07 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-02-11 11:05   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-02-11 11:16     ` David Laight
2020-02-11 11:43       ` Pavel Begunkov

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