releases/2.6.31.12/fasync-split-fasync_helper-into-separate-add-remove-functions.patch

From 53281b6d34d44308372d16acb7fb5327609f68b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:23:37 -0800
Subject: fasync: split 'fasync_helper()' into separate add/remove functions

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit 53281b6d34d44308372d16acb7fb5327609f68b6 upstream.

Yes, the add and remove cases do share the same basic loop and the
locking, but the compiler can inline and then CSE some of the end result
anyway.  And splitting it up makes the code way easier to follow,
and makes it clearer exactly what the semantics are.

In particular, we must make sure that the FASYNC flag in file->f_flags
exactly matches the state of "is this file on any fasync list", since
not only is that flag visible to user space (F_GETFL), but we also use
that flag to check whether we need to remove any fasync entries on file
close.

We got that wrong for the case of a mixed use of file locking (which
tries to remove any fasync entries for file leases) and fasync.

Splitting the function up also makes it possible to do some future
optimizations without making the function even messier.  In particular,
since the FASYNC flag has to match the state of "is this on a list", we
can do the following future optimizations:

 - on remove, we don't even need to get the locks and traverse the list
   if FASYNC isn't set, since we can know a priori that there is no
   point (this is effectively the same optimization that we already do
   in __fput() wrt removing fasync on file close)

 - on add, we can use the FASYNC flag to decide whether we are changing
   an existing entry or need to allocate a new one.

but this is just the cleanup + fix for the FASYNC flag.

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 fs/fcntl.c |  102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -526,60 +526,90 @@ static DEFINE_RWLOCK(fasync_lock);
 static struct kmem_cache *fasync_cache __read_mostly;
 
 /*
- * fasync_helper() is used by almost all character device drivers
- * to set up the fasync queue. It returns negative on error, 0 if it did
- * no changes and positive if it added/deleted the entry.
+ * Remove a fasync entry. If successfully removed, return
+ * positive and clear the FASYNC flag. If no entry exists,
+ * do nothing and return 0.
+ *
+ * NOTE! It is very important that the FASYNC flag always
+ * match the state "is the filp on a fasync list".
+ *
+ * We always take the 'filp->f_lock', in since fasync_lock
+ * needs to be irq-safe.
  */
-int fasync_helper(int fd, struct file * filp, int on, struct fasync_struct **fapp)
+static int fasync_remove_entry(struct file *filp, struct fasync_struct **fapp)
 {
 	struct fasync_struct *fa, **fp;
-	struct fasync_struct *new = NULL;
 	int result = 0;
 
-	if (on) {
-		new = kmem_cache_alloc(fasync_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!new)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+	spin_lock(&filp->f_lock);
+	write_lock_irq(&fasync_lock);
+	for (fp = fapp; (fa = *fp) != NULL; fp = &fa->fa_next) {
+		if (fa->fa_file != filp)
+			continue;
+		*fp = fa->fa_next;
+		kmem_cache_free(fasync_cache, fa);
+		filp->f_flags &= ~FASYNC;
+		result = 1;
+		break;
 	}
+	write_unlock_irq(&fasync_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock);
+	return result;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Add a fasync entry. Return negative on error, positive if
+ * added, and zero if did nothing but change an existing one.
+ *
+ * NOTE! It is very important that the FASYNC flag always
+ * match the state "is the filp on a fasync list".
+ */
+static int fasync_add_entry(int fd, struct file *filp, struct fasync_struct **fapp)
+{
+	struct fasync_struct *new, *fa, **fp;
+	int result = 0;
+
+	new = kmem_cache_alloc(fasync_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!new)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	/*
-	 * We need to take f_lock first since it's not an IRQ-safe
-	 * lock.
-	 */
 	spin_lock(&filp->f_lock);
 	write_lock_irq(&fasync_lock);
 	for (fp = fapp; (fa = *fp) != NULL; fp = &fa->fa_next) {
-		if (fa->fa_file == filp) {
-			if(on) {
-				fa->fa_fd = fd;
-				kmem_cache_free(fasync_cache, new);
-			} else {
-				*fp = fa->fa_next;
-				kmem_cache_free(fasync_cache, fa);
-				result = 1;
-			}
-			goto out;
-		}
+		if (fa->fa_file != filp)
+			continue;
+		fa->fa_fd = fd;
+		kmem_cache_free(fasync_cache, new);
+		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (on) {
-		new->magic = FASYNC_MAGIC;
-		new->fa_file = filp;
-		new->fa_fd = fd;
-		new->fa_next = *fapp;
-		*fapp = new;
-		result = 1;
-	}
+	new->magic = FASYNC_MAGIC;
+	new->fa_file = filp;
+	new->fa_fd = fd;
+	new->fa_next = *fapp;
+	*fapp = new;
+	result = 1;
+	filp->f_flags |= FASYNC;
+
 out:
-	if (on)
-		filp->f_flags |= FASYNC;
-	else
-		filp->f_flags &= ~FASYNC;
 	write_unlock_irq(&fasync_lock);
 	spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock);
 	return result;
 }
 
+/*
+ * fasync_helper() is used by almost all character device drivers
+ * to set up the fasync queue, and for regular files by the file
+ * lease code. It returns negative on error, 0 if it did no changes
+ * and positive if it added/deleted the entry.
+ */
+int fasync_helper(int fd, struct file * filp, int on, struct fasync_struct **fapp)
+{
+	if (!on)
+		return fasync_remove_entry(filp, fapp);
+	return fasync_add_entry(fd, filp, fapp);
+}
+
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fasync_helper);
 
 void __kill_fasync(struct fasync_struct *fa, int sig, int band)