linux-toradex.git/fs/cachefiles, branch v4.19-rc5

cachefiles: Wait rather than BUG'ing on "Unexpected object collision"

2018-07-25T13:49:00+00:00

If we meet a conflicting object that is marked FSCACHE_OBJECT_IS_LIVE in
the active object tree, we have been emitting a BUG after logging
information about it and the new object.

Instead, we should wait for the CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE flag to be cleared
on the old object (or return an error).  The ACTIVE flag should be cleared
after it has been removed from the active object tree.  A timeout of 60s is
used in the wait, so we shouldn't be able to get stuck there.

Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri 
Signed-off-by: David Howells

cachefiles: Fix missing clear of the CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE flag

2018-07-25T13:49:00+00:00

In cachefiles_mark_object_active(), the new object is marked active and
then we try to add it to the active object tree.  If a conflicting object
is already present, we want to wait for that to go away.  After the wait,
we go round again and try to re-mark the object as being active - but it's
already marked active from the first time we went through and a BUG is
issued.

Fix this by clearing the CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE flag before we try again.

Analysis from Kiran Kumar Modukuri:

[Impact]
Oops during heavy NFS + FSCache + Cachefiles

CacheFiles: Error: Overlong wait for old active object to go away.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000002

CacheFiles: Error: Object already active kernel BUG at
fs/cachefiles/namei.c:163!

[Cause]
In a heavily loaded system with big files being read and truncated, an
fscache object for a cookie is being dropped and a new object being
looked. The new object being looked for has to wait for the old object
to go away before the new object is moved to active state.

[Fix]
Clear the flag 'CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE' for the new object when
retrying the object lookup.

[Testcase]
Have run ~100 hours of NFS stress tests and have not seen this bug recur.

[Regression Potential]
 - Limited to fscache/cachefiles.

Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri 
Signed-off-by: David Howells

fscache: Fix reference overput in fscache_attach_object() error handling

2018-07-25T13:49:00+00:00

When a cookie is allocated that causes fscache_object structs to be
allocated, those objects are initialised with the cookie pointer, but
aren't blessed with a ref on that cookie unless the attachment is
successfully completed in fscache_attach_object().

If attachment fails because the parent object was dying or there was a
collision, fscache_attach_object() returns without incrementing the cookie
counter - but upon failure of this function, the object is released which
then puts the cookie, whether or not a ref was taken on the cookie.

Fix this by taking a ref on the cookie when it is assigned in
fscache_object_init(), even when we're creating a root object.


Analysis from Kiran Kumar:

This bug has been seen in 4.4.0-124-generic #148-Ubuntu kernel

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1776277

fscache cookie ref count updated incorrectly during fscache object
allocation resulting in following Oops.

kernel BUG at /build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/internal.h:321!
kernel BUG at /build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/cookie.c:639!

[Cause]
Two threads are trying to do operate on a cookie and two objects.

(1) One thread tries to unmount the filesystem and in process goes over a
    huge list of objects marking them dead and deleting the objects.
    cookie->usage is also decremented in following path:

      nfs_fscache_release_super_cookie
       -> __fscache_relinquish_cookie
        ->__fscache_cookie_put
        ->BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cookie->usage) <= 0);

(2) A second thread tries to lookup an object for reading data in following
    path:

    fscache_alloc_object
    1) cachefiles_alloc_object
        -> fscache_object_init
           -> assign cookie, but usage not bumped.
    2) fscache_attach_object -> fails in cant_attach_object because the
         cookie's backing object or cookie's->parent object are going away
    3) fscache_put_object
        -> cachefiles_put_object
          ->fscache_object_destroy
            ->fscache_cookie_put
               ->BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cookie->usage) <= 0);

[NOTE from dhowells] It's unclear as to the circumstances in which (2) can
take place, given that thread (1) is in nfs_kill_super(), however a
conflicting NFS mount with slightly different parameters that creates a
different superblock would do it.  A backtrace from Kiran seems to show
that this is a possibility:

    kernel BUG at/build/linux-Y09MKI/linux-4.4.0/fs/fscache/cookie.c:639!
    ...
    RIP: __fscache_cookie_put+0x3a/0x40 [fscache]
    Call Trace:
     __fscache_relinquish_cookie+0x87/0x120 [fscache]
     nfs_fscache_release_super_cookie+0x2d/0xb0 [nfs]
     nfs_kill_super+0x29/0x40 [nfs]
     deactivate_locked_super+0x48/0x80
     deactivate_super+0x5c/0x60
     cleanup_mnt+0x3f/0x90
     __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20
     task_work_run+0x86/0xb0
     exit_to_usermode_loop+0xc2/0xd0
     syscall_return_slowpath+0x4e/0x60
     int_ret_from_sys_call+0x25/0x9f

[Fix] Bump up the cookie usage in fscache_object_init, when it is first
being assigned a cookie atomically such that the cookie is added and bumped
up if its refcount is not zero.  Remove the assignment in
fscache_attach_object().

[Testcase]
I have run ~100 hours of NFS stress tests and not seen this bug recur.

[Regression Potential]
 - Limited to fscache/cachefiles.

Fixes: ccc4fc3d11e9 ("FS-Cache: Implement the cookie management part of the netfs API")
Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri 
Signed-off-by: David Howells

cachefiles: Fix refcounting bug in backing-file read monitoring

2018-07-25T13:49:00+00:00

cachefiles_read_waiter() has the right to access a 'monitor' object by
virtue of being called under the waitqueue lock for one of the pages in its
purview.  However, it has no ref on that monitor object or on the
associated operation.

What it is allowed to do is to move the monitor object to the operation's
to_do list, but once it drops the work_lock, it's actually no longer
permitted to access that object.  However, it is trying to enqueue the
retrieval operation for processing - but it can only do this via a pointer
in the monitor object, something it shouldn't be doing.

If it doesn't enqueue the operation, the operation may not get processed.
If the order is flipped so that the enqueue is first, then it's possible
for the work processor to look at the to_do list before the monitor is
enqueued upon it.

Fix this by getting a ref on the operation so that we can trust that it
will still be there once we've added the monitor to the to_do list and
dropped the work_lock.  The op can then be enqueued after the lock is
dropped.

The bug can manifest in one of a couple of ways.  The first manifestation
looks like:

 FS-Cache:
 FS-Cache: Assertion failed
 FS-Cache: 6 == 5 is false
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at fs/fscache/operation.c:494!
 RIP: 0010:fscache_put_operation+0x1e3/0x1f0
 ...
 fscache_op_work_func+0x26/0x50
 process_one_work+0x131/0x290
 worker_thread+0x45/0x360
 kthread+0xf8/0x130
 ? create_worker+0x190/0x190
 ? kthread_cancel_work_sync+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

This is due to the operation being in the DEAD state (6) rather than
INITIALISED, COMPLETE or CANCELLED (5) because it's already passed through
fscache_put_operation().

The bug can also manifest like the following:

 kernel BUG at fs/fscache/operation.c:69!
 ...
    [exception RIP: fscache_enqueue_operation+246]
 ...
 #7 [ffff883fff083c10] fscache_enqueue_operation at ffffffffa0b793c6
 #8 [ffff883fff083c28] cachefiles_read_waiter at ffffffffa0b15a48
 #9 [ffff883fff083c48] __wake_up_common at ffffffff810af028

I'm not entirely certain as to which is line 69 in Lei's kernel, so I'm not
entirely clear which assertion failed.

Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem")
Reported-by: Lei Xue 
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum 
Reported-by: Anthony DeRobertis 
Reported-by: NeilBrown 
Reported-by: Daniel Axtens 
Reported-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens

Merge branch 'hch.procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2018-06-04T17:00:01+00:00

Pull procfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Christoph's proc_create_... cleanups series"

* 'hch.procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (44 commits)
  xfs, proc: hide unused xfs procfs helpers
  isdn/gigaset: add back gigaset_procinfo assignment
  proc: update SIZEOF_PDE_INLINE_NAME for the new pde fields
  tty: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show
  ide: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show
  ide: remove ide_driver_proc_write
  isdn: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show
  atm: switch to proc_create_seq_private
  atm: simplify procfs code
  bluetooth: switch to proc_create_seq_data
  netfilter/x_tables: switch to proc_create_seq_private
  netfilter/xt_hashlimit: switch to proc_create_{seq,single}_data
  neigh: switch to proc_create_seq_data
  hostap: switch to proc_create_{seq,single}_data
  bonding: switch to proc_create_seq_data
  rtc/proc: switch to proc_create_single_data
  drbd: switch to proc_create_single
  resource: switch to proc_create_seq_data
  staging/rtl8192u: simplify procfs code
  jfs: simplify procfs code
  ...

cachefiles: vfs_mkdir() might succeed leaving dentry negative unhashed

2018-05-21T18:30:10+00:00

That can (and does, on some filesystems) happen - ->mkdir() (and thus
vfs_mkdir()) can legitimately leave its argument negative and just
unhash it, counting upon the lookup to pick the object we'd created
next time we try to look at that name.

Some vfs_mkdir() callers forget about that possibility...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}

2018-05-16T05:23:35+00:00

Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations
argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers.

All trivial callers converted over.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

fscache: Pass object size in rather than calling back for it

2018-04-06T13:05:14+00:00

Pass the object size in to fscache_acquire_cookie() and
fscache_write_page() rather than the netfs providing a callback by which it
can be received.  This makes it easier to update the size of the object
when a new page is written that extends the object.

The current object size is also passed by fscache to the check_aux
function, obviating the need to store it in the aux data.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker 
Tested-by: Steve Dickson

fscache: Attach the index key and aux data to the cookie

2018-04-04T12:41:28+00:00

Attach copies of the index key and auxiliary data to the fscache cookie so
that:

 (1) The callbacks to the netfs for this stuff can be eliminated.  This
     can simplify things in the cache as the information is still
     available, even after the cache has relinquished the cookie.

 (2) Simplifies the locking requirements of accessing the information as we
     don't have to worry about the netfs object going away on us.

 (3) The cache can do lazy updating of the coherency information on disk.
     As long as the cache is flushed before reboot/poweroff, there's no
     need to update the coherency info on disk every time it changes.

 (4) Cookies can be hashed or put in a tree as the index key is easily
     available.  This allows:

     (a) Checks for duplicate cookies can be made at the top fscache layer
     	 rather than down in the bowels of the cache backend.

     (b) Caching can be added to a netfs object that has a cookie if the
     	 cache is brought online after the netfs object is allocated.

A certain amount of space is made in the cookie for inline copies of the
data, but if it won't fit there, extra memory will be allocated for it.

The downside of this is that live cache operation requires more memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker 
Tested-by: Steve Dickson

fscache: Add tracepoints

2018-04-04T12:41:27+00:00

Add some tracepoints to fscache:

 (*) fscache_cookie - Tracks a cookie's usage count.

 (*) fscache_netfs - Logs registration of a network filesystem, including
     the pointer to the cookie allocated.

 (*) fscache_acquire - Logs cookie acquisition.

 (*) fscache_relinquish - Logs cookie relinquishment.

 (*) fscache_enable - Logs enablement of a cookie.

 (*) fscache_disable - Logs disablement of a cookie.

 (*) fscache_osm - Tracks execution of states in the object state machine.

and cachefiles:

 (*) cachefiles_ref - Tracks a cachefiles object's usage count.

 (*) cachefiles_lookup - Logs result of lookup_one_len().

 (*) cachefiles_mkdir - Logs result of vfs_mkdir().

 (*) cachefiles_create - Logs result of vfs_create().

 (*) cachefiles_unlink - Logs calls to vfs_unlink().

 (*) cachefiles_rename - Logs calls to vfs_rename().

 (*) cachefiles_mark_active - Logs an object becoming active.

 (*) cachefiles_wait_active - Logs a wait for an old object to be
     destroyed.

 (*) cachefiles_mark_inactive - Logs an object becoming inactive.

 (*) cachefiles_mark_buried - Logs the burial of an object.

Signed-off-by: David Howells