aio: remove the extra get_file/fput pair in io_submit_one
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fri, 6 Apr 2018 07:28:17 +0000 (09:28 +0200)
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Wed, 2 May 2018 17:56:30 +0000 (19:56 +0200)
If we release the lockdep write protection token before calling into
->write_iter and thus never access the file pointer after an -EIOCBQUEUED
return from ->write_iter or ->read_iter we don't need this extra
reference.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
fs/aio.c

index 1850774..e5866e2 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1515,16 +1515,19 @@ static ssize_t aio_write(struct kiocb *req, struct iocb *iocb, bool vectored,
                return ret;
        ret = rw_verify_area(WRITE, file, &req->ki_pos, iov_iter_count(&iter));
        if (!ret) {
-               req->ki_flags |= IOCB_WRITE;
-               file_start_write(file);
-               ret = aio_ret(req, call_write_iter(file, req, &iter));
                /*
-                * We release freeze protection in aio_complete().  Fool lockdep
-                * by telling it the lock got released so that it doesn't
-                * complain about held lock when we return to userspace.
+                * Open-code file_start_write here to grab freeze protection,
+                * which will be released by another thread in aio_complete().
+                * Fool lockdep by telling it the lock got released so that it
+                * doesn't complain about the held lock when we return to
+                * userspace.
                 */
-               if (S_ISREG(file_inode(file)->i_mode))
+               if (S_ISREG(file_inode(file)->i_mode)) {
+                       __sb_start_write(file_inode(file)->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE, true);
                        __sb_writers_release(file_inode(file)->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
+               }
+               req->ki_flags |= IOCB_WRITE;
+               ret = aio_ret(req, call_write_iter(file, req, &iter));
        }
        kfree(iovec);
        return ret;
@@ -1599,7 +1602,6 @@ static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
        req->ki_user_iocb = user_iocb;
        req->ki_user_data = iocb->aio_data;
 
-       get_file(file);
        switch (iocb->aio_lio_opcode) {
        case IOCB_CMD_PREAD:
                ret = aio_read(&req->common, iocb, false, compat);
@@ -1618,8 +1620,13 @@ static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
                ret = -EINVAL;
                break;
        }
-       fput(file);
 
+       /*
+        * If ret is -EIOCBQUEUED, ownership of the file reference acquired
+        * above passed to the file system, which at this point might have
+        * dropped the reference, so we must be careful to not reference it
+        * once we have called into the file system.
+        */
        if (ret && ret != -EIOCBQUEUED)
                goto out_put_req;
        return 0;