Re: [PATCH 10/10] send events using read

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Hi, Eric,

This is not a full review, but I did notice a problem as I was trying to
figure out the new API...

> +static ssize_t fanotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> +			     size_t count, loff_t *pos)
> +{
> +	struct fsnotify_group *group;
> +	struct fsnotify_event *kevent;
> +	char __user *start;
> +	int ret;
> +	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> +
> +	start = buf;
> +	group = file->private_data;
> +
> +	pr_debug("%s: group=%p\n", __func__, group);
> +
> +	while (1) {
> +		prepare_to_wait(&group->notification_waitq, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> +
> +		mutex_lock(&group->notification_mutex);
> +		kevent = get_one_event(group, count);
> +		mutex_unlock(&group->notification_mutex);

prepare_to_wait(), among other things, sets the task state.  But then you
go into various sleeping calls (mutex_lock(), for starters); that will undo
what prepare_to_wait has done.  You'll be back in TASK_RUNNING at this
point, so you'll never sleep.

I've not looked at the code well enough to know how to fix it.  My guess is
that the sleeping on event availability should be done in get_one_event(),
or in a small wrapper which goes immediately around it.

> +
> +		if (kevent) {
> +			ret = PTR_ERR(kevent);
> +			if (IS_ERR(kevent))
> +				break;
> +			ret = copy_event_to_user(group, kevent, buf);
> +			fsnotify_put_event(kevent);
> +			if (ret < 0)
> +				break;
> +			buf += ret;
> +			count -= ret;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
> +		ret = -EAGAIN;
> +		if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
> +			break;
> +		ret = -EINTR;
> +		if (signal_pending(current))
> +			break;
> +
> +		if (start != buf)
> +			break;

Alternatively, maybe you could do this here?

	        prepare_to_wait(...);
		if (fsnotify_notify_queue_is_empty(group))
			schedule()
> +
> +		schedule();

You also need finish_wait() here, not outside the loop.

> +	}
> +
> +	finish_wait(&group->notification_waitq, &wait);
> +	if (start != buf && ret != -EFAULT)
> +		ret = buf - start;
> +	return ret;
> +}

jon