[PATCH for-next] io_uring: allow non-fixed files with SQPOLL

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

The restriction of needing fixed files for SQPOLL is problematic, and
prevents/inhibits several valid uses cases.

There's no real good reason for us not to allow it, except we need to
have the sqpoll thread inherit current->files from the task that setup
the ring. We can't easily do that, since we'd introduce a circular
reference by holding on to our own file table.

If we wait for the sqpoll thread to exit when the ring fd is closed,
then we can safely reference the task files_struct without holding
a reference to it. And once we inherit that in the SQPOLL thread, we
can support non-fixed files for SQPOLL.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

---

diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index 7fcf83592046..1ac8e8bb7657 100644
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -279,6 +279,13 @@ struct io_ring_ctx {
 	struct mm_struct	*sqo_mm;
 	wait_queue_head_t	sqo_wait;
 
+	/*
+	 * For SQPOLL usage - no reference is held to this file table, we
+	 * rely on fops->flush() and our callback there waiting for the users
+	 * to finish.
+	 */
+	struct files_struct	*sqo_files;
+
 	/*
 	 * If used, fixed file set. Writers must ensure that ->refs is dead,
 	 * readers must ensure that ->refs is alive as long as the file* is
@@ -6045,13 +6052,7 @@ static int io_file_get(struct io_submit_state *state, struct io_kiocb *req,
 static int io_req_set_file(struct io_submit_state *state, struct io_kiocb *req,
 			   int fd)
 {
-	bool fixed;
-
-	fixed = (req->flags & REQ_F_FIXED_FILE) != 0;
-	if (unlikely(!fixed && io_async_submit(req->ctx)))
-		return -EBADF;
-
-	return io_file_get(state, req, fd, &req->file, fixed);
+	return io_file_get(state, req, fd, &req->file, req->flags & REQ_F_FIXED_FILE);
 }
 
 static int io_grab_files(struct io_kiocb *req)
@@ -6621,6 +6622,10 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
 
 	old_cred = override_creds(ctx->creds);
 
+	task_lock(current);
+	current->files = ctx->sqo_files;
+	task_unlock(current);
+
 	timeout = jiffies + ctx->sq_thread_idle;
 	while (!kthread_should_park()) {
 		unsigned int to_submit;
@@ -6719,6 +6724,9 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
 	io_run_task_work();
 
 	io_sq_thread_drop_mm();
+	task_lock(current);
+	current->files = NULL;
+	task_unlock(current);
 	revert_creds(old_cred);
 
 	kthread_parkme();
@@ -7549,6 +7557,13 @@ static int io_sq_offload_create(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
 		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 			goto err;
 
+		/*
+		 * We will exit the sqthread before current exits, so we can
+		 * avoid taking a reference here and introducing weird
+		 * circular dependencies on the files table.
+		 */
+		ctx->sqo_files = current->files;
+
 		ctx->sq_thread_idle = msecs_to_jiffies(p->sq_thread_idle);
 		if (!ctx->sq_thread_idle)
 			ctx->sq_thread_idle = HZ;
@@ -7586,6 +7601,7 @@ static int io_sq_offload_create(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
 
 	return 0;
 err:
+	ctx->sqo_files = NULL;
 	io_finish_async(ctx);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -8239,8 +8254,10 @@ static int io_uring_flush(struct file *file, void *data)
 	/*
 	 * If the task is going away, cancel work it may have pending
 	 */
-	if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || (current->flags & PF_EXITING))
+	if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || (current->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
+		io_sq_thread_stop(ctx);
 		io_wq_cancel_cb(ctx->io_wq, io_cancel_task_cb, current, true);
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -8690,7 +8707,7 @@ static int io_uring_create(unsigned entries, struct io_uring_params *p,
 	p->features = IORING_FEAT_SINGLE_MMAP | IORING_FEAT_NODROP |
 			IORING_FEAT_SUBMIT_STABLE | IORING_FEAT_RW_CUR_POS |
 			IORING_FEAT_CUR_PERSONALITY | IORING_FEAT_FAST_POLL |
-			IORING_FEAT_POLL_32BITS;
+			IORING_FEAT_POLL_32BITS | IORING_FEAT_SQPOLL_NONFIXED;
 
 	if (copy_to_user(params, p, sizeof(*p))) {
 		ret = -EFAULT;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h b/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
index 3e45de39e04b..02528ec8e81b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ struct io_uring_params {
 #define IORING_FEAT_CUR_PERSONALITY	(1U << 4)
 #define IORING_FEAT_FAST_POLL		(1U << 5)
 #define IORING_FEAT_POLL_32BITS 	(1U << 6)
+#define IORING_FEAT_SQPOLL_NONFIXED	(1U << 7)
 
 /*
  * io_uring_register(2) opcodes and arguments

-- 
Jens Axboe