pipe: fix empty pipe check in pipe_write()

LTP pipeio_1 test is hanging with v5.5-rc2-385-gb8e382a185eb,
with read side observing empty pipe and sleeping and write
side running out of space and then sleeping as well. In this
scenario there are 5 writers and 1 reader.

Problem is that after pipe_write() reacquires pipe lock, it
re-checks for empty pipe with potentially stale 'head' and
doesn't wake up read side anymore. pipe->tail can advance
beyond 'head', because there are multiple writers.

Use pipe->head for empty pipe check after reacquiring lock
to observe current state.

Testing: With patch, LTP pipeio_1 ran successfully in loop for 1 hour.
         Without patch it hanged within a minute.

Fixes: 5c213172f412 ("pipe: fix and clarify pipe write wakeup logic")
Reported-by: Rachel Sibley <rasibley@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 04d004ee2e8c645b079373eb9cf2abda15bc0529..57502c3c0fba1bd8fba06693a2c0401054d5c00e 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
                }
                wait_event_interruptible(pipe->wait, pipe_writable(pipe));
                __pipe_lock(pipe);
-               was_empty = pipe_empty(head, pipe->tail);
+               was_empty = pipe_empty(pipe->head, pipe->tail);
        }
 out:
        __pipe_unlock(pipe);