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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Jackie Liu <[email protected]>,
	Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] io_uring: fix dead-hung for non-iter fixed rw
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 19:38:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 11/24/19 5:43 PM, Jackie Liu wrote:
> 
> 
>> 2019年11月25日 01:52,Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]> 写道:
>>
>> On 24/11/2019 20:10, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 11/24/19 1:58 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>> Read/write requests to devices without implemented read/write_iter
>>>> using fixed buffers causes general protection fault, which totally
>>>> hangs a machine.
>>>>
>>>> io_import_fixed() initialises iov_iter with bvec, but loop_rw_iter()
>>>> accesses it as iovec, so dereferencing random address.
>>>>
>>>> kmap() page by page in this case
>>>
>>> This looks good to me, much cleaner/simpler. I've added a few pipe fixed
>>> buffer tests to liburing as well. Didn't crash for me, but obvious
>>> garbage coming out. I've flagged this for stable as well.
>>>
>> The problem I have is that __user pointer is meant to be checked
>> for not being a kernel address. I suspect, it could fail in some
>> device, which double checks the pointer after vfs (e.g. using access_ok()).
>> Am I wrong? Not a fault at least...
>>
>> #define access_ok(...) __range_not_ok(addr, user_addr_max());
>>
>> BTW, is there anybody testing it for non x86-64 arch?
>>
> 
> I have some aarch64 platform, What test do you want me to do?

A basic one to try would be:

axboe@x1:/home/axboe/git/liburing $ test/stdout 
This is a pipe test
This is a fixed pipe test

But in general I'd just run make runtests in the liburing directory
and go through all of them.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-25  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <[email protected]>
2019-11-24  8:58 ` [PATCH v2] io_uring: fix dead-hung for non-iter fixed rw Pavel Begunkov
2019-11-24 17:10   ` Jens Axboe
2019-11-24 17:52     ` Pavel Begunkov
2019-11-25  0:43       ` Jackie Liu
2019-11-25  2:38         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-11-25  3:33           ` Jackie Liu
2019-11-25  3:47             ` Jens Axboe
2019-11-25 10:12             ` Pavel Begunkov
2019-11-25  2:37       ` Jens Axboe
2019-11-25 10:46         ` Pavel Begunkov

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