io_uring: use signal based task_work running

Since 5.7, we've been using task_work to trigger async running of
requests in the context of the original task. This generally works
great, but there's a case where if the task is currently blocked
in the kernel waiting on a condition to become true, it won't process
task_work. Even though the task is woken, it just checks whatever
condition it's waiting on, and goes back to sleep if it's still false.

This is a problem if that very condition only becomes true when that
task_work is run. An example of that is the task registering an eventfd
with io_uring, and it's now blocked waiting on an eventfd read. That
read could depend on a completion event, and that completion event
won't get trigged until task_work has been run.

Use the TWA_SIGNAL notification for task_work, so that we ensure that
the task always runs the work when queued.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.7
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index e507737..700644a 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -4072,6 +4072,21 @@ struct io_poll_table {
        int error;
 };
 
+static int io_req_task_work_add(struct io_kiocb *req, struct callback_head *cb,
+                               int notify)
+{
+       struct task_struct *tsk = req->task;
+       int ret;
+
+       if (req->ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL)
+               notify = 0;
+
+       ret = task_work_add(tsk, cb, notify);
+       if (!ret)
+               wake_up_process(tsk);
+       return ret;
+}
+
 static int __io_async_wake(struct io_kiocb *req, struct io_poll_iocb *poll,
                           __poll_t mask, task_work_func_t func)
 {
@@ -4095,13 +4110,13 @@ static int __io_async_wake(struct io_kiocb *req, struct io_poll_iocb *poll,
         * of executing it. We can't safely execute it anyway, as we may not
         * have the needed state needed for it anyway.
         */
-       ret = task_work_add(tsk, &req->task_work, true);
+       ret = io_req_task_work_add(req, &req->task_work, TWA_SIGNAL);
        if (unlikely(ret)) {
                WRITE_ONCE(poll->canceled, true);
                tsk = io_wq_get_task(req->ctx->io_wq);
-               task_work_add(tsk, &req->task_work, true);
+               task_work_add(tsk, &req->task_work, 0);
+               wake_up_process(tsk);
        }
-       wake_up_process(tsk);
        return 1;
 }
 
@@ -6182,19 +6197,20 @@ static int io_cqring_wait(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, int min_events,
        do {
                prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&ctx->wait, &iowq.wq,
                                                TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+               /* make sure we run task_work before checking for signals */
                if (current->task_works)
                        task_work_run();
-               if (io_should_wake(&iowq, false))
-                       break;
-               schedule();
                if (signal_pending(current)) {
-                       ret = -EINTR;
+                       ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
                        break;
                }
+               if (io_should_wake(&iowq, false))
+                       break;
+               schedule();
        } while (1);
        finish_wait(&ctx->wait, &iowq.wq);
 
-       restore_saved_sigmask_unless(ret == -EINTR);
+       restore_saved_sigmask_unless(ret == -ERESTARTSYS);
 
        return READ_ONCE(rings->cq.head) == READ_ONCE(rings->cq.tail) ? ret : 0;
 }