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Commit 01d7a356 authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe
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aio: prevent potential eventfd recursion on poll



If we have nested or circular eventfd wakeups, then we can deadlock if
we run them inline from our poll waitqueue wakeup handler. It's also
possible to have very long chains of notifications, to the extent where
we could risk blowing the stack.

Check the eventfd recursion count before calling eventfd_signal(). If
it's non-zero, then punt the signaling to async context. This is always
safe, as it takes us out-of-line in terms of stack and locking context.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 3e577dcd
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