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    Fix aio_poll() races · e9e47779
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     upstream.
    
    aio_poll() has to cope with several unpleasant problems:
    	* requests that might stay around indefinitely need to
    be made visible for io_cancel(2); that must not be done to
    a request already completed, though.
    	* in cases when ->poll() has placed us on a waitqueue,
    wakeup might have happened (and request completed) before ->poll()
    returns.
    	* worse, in some early wakeup cases request might end
    up re-added into the queue later - we can't treat "woken up and
    currently not in the queue" as "it's not going to stick around
    indefinitely"
    	* ... moreover, ->poll() might have decided not to
    put it on any queues to start with, and that needs to be distinguished
    from the previous case
    	* ->poll() might have tried to put us on more than one queue.
    Only the first will succeed for aio poll, so we might end up missing
    wakeups.  OTOH, we might very well notice that only after the
    wakeup hits and request gets completed (all before ->poll() gets
    around to the second poll_wait()).  In that case it's too late to
    decide that we have an error.
    
    req->woken was an attempt to deal with that.  Unfortunately, it was
    broken.  What we need to keep track of is not that wakeup has happened -
    the thing might come back after that.  It's that async reference is
    already gone and won't come back, so we can't (and needn't) put the
    request on the list of cancellables.
    
    The easiest case is "request hadn't been put on any waitqueues"; we
    can tell by seeing NULL apt.head, and in that case there won't be
    anything async.  We should either complete the request ourselves
    (if vfs_poll() reports anything of interest) or return an error.
    
    In all other cases we get exclusion with wakeups by grabbing the
    queue lock.
    
    If request is currently on queue and we have something interesting
    from vfs_poll(), we can steal it and complete the request ourselves.
    
    If it's on queue and vfs_poll() has not reported anything interesting,
    we either put it on the cancellable list, or, if we know that it
    hadn't been put on all queues ->poll() wanted it on, we steal it and
    return an error.
    
    If it's _not_ on queue, it's either been already dealt with (in which
    case we do nothing), or there's aio_poll_complete_work() about to be
    executed.  In that case we either put it on the cancellable list,
    or, if we know it hadn't been put on all queues ->poll() wanted it on,
    simulate what cancel would've done.
    
    It's a lot more convoluted than I'd like it to be.  Single-consumer APIs
    suck, and unfortunately aio is not an exception...
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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