Re: [RFC] Check if file_data is initialized

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 1/9/20 9:04 AM, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 07:51:28AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 1/9/20 7:26 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> On 1/9/2020 4:17 PM, Dmitrii Dolgov wrote:
>>>> With combination of --fixedbufs and an old version of fio I've managed
>>>> to get a strange situation, when doing io_iopoll_complete NULL pointer
>>>> dereference on file_data was caused in io_free_req_many. Interesting
>>>> enough, the very same configuration doesn't fail on a newest version of
>>>> fio (the old one is fc220349e4514, the new one is 2198a6b5a9f4), but I
>>>> guess it still makes sense to have this check if it's possible to craft
>>>> such request to io_uring.
>>>
>>> I didn't looked up why it could become NULL in the first place, but the
>>> problem is probably deeper.
>>>
>>> 1. I don't see why it puts @rb->to_free @file_data->refs, even though
>>> there could be non-fixed reqs. It needs to count REQ_F_FIXED_FILE reqs
>>> and put only as much.
>>
>> Agree on the fixed file refs, there's a bug there where it assumes they
>> are all still fixed. See below - Dmitrii, use this patch for testing
>> instead of the other one!
> 
> Yes, the patch from this email also fixes the issue.

Great, thanks for testing, I'll add your Tested-by to the commit.

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Jens Axboe