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Unverified Commit 85e833cd authored by Baokun Li's avatar Baokun Li Committed by Christian Brauner
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cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD

In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the
kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, the cachefiles_daemon_write()
will always return -EIO, so the daemon can't pass the copen to the kernel.
Then the kernel process that is waiting for the copen triggers a hung_task.

Since the DEAD state is irreversible, it can only be exited by closing
/dev/cachefiles. Therefore, after calling cachefiles_io_error() to mark
the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, if in ondemand mode, flush all requests to
avoid the above hungtask. We may still be able to read some of the cached
data before closing the fd of /dev/cachefiles.

Note that this relies on the patch that adds reference counting to the req,
otherwise it may UAF.

Fixes: c8383054

 ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
Signed-off-by: default avatarBaokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522114308.2402121-12-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Acked-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent 4f8703fb
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