Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] futex: Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes

[Gabriel Krisman Bertazi]

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>
>> +static int futex_wait_multiple(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags,
>> +			       u32 count, ktime_t *abs_time)
>> +{
>> +	struct futex_wait_block *wb;
>> +	struct restart_block *restart;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	if (!count)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	wb = kcalloc(count, sizeof(struct futex_wait_block), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (!wb)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +	if (copy_from_user(wb, uaddr,
>> +			   count * sizeof(struct futex_wait_block))) {
>> +		ret = -EFAULT;
>> +		goto out;
>> +	}
>
> I'm thinking we can do away with this giant copy and do it one at a time
> from the other function, just extend the storage allocated there to
> store whatever values are still required later.

Hey Peter,

Thanks for your very detailed review.  it is deeply appreciated.  My
apologies for the style issues, I blindly trusted checkpatch.pl, when it
said it was ready for submission.

I'm not sure I get the suggestion here.  If I understand the code
correctly, once we do it one at a time, we need to queue_me() each futex
and then drop the hb lock, before going to the next one.  Once we go to
the next one, we need to call get_user_pages (and now copy_from_user),
both of which can sleep, and on return set the task state to
TASK_RUNNING.  This opens a window where we can wake up the task but it
is not in the right sleeping state, which from the comment in
futex_wait_queue_me(), seems problematic.  This is also the reason why I
wanted to split the key memory pin from the actual read in patch 1/2.

Did you consider this problem or is it not a problem for some reason?
What am I missing?

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi