linux-toradex.git/fs/fuse/file.c, branch v3.10.38

fuse: fix fallocate vs. ftruncate race

2013-10-13T23:08:32+00:00

commit 0ab08f576b9e6a6b689fc6b4e632079b978e619b upstream.

A former patch introducing FUSE_I_SIZE_UNSTABLE flag provided detailed
description of races between ftruncate and anyone who can extend i_size:

> 1. As in the previous scenario fuse_dentry_revalidate() discovered that i_size
> changed (due to our own fuse_do_setattr()) and is going to call
> truncate_pagecache() for some  'new_size' it believes valid right now. But by
> the time that particular truncate_pagecache() is called ...
> 2. fuse_do_setattr() returns (either having called truncate_pagecache() or
> not -- it doesn't matter).
> 3. The file is extended either by write(2) or ftruncate(2) or fallocate(2).
> 4. mmap-ed write makes a page in the extended region dirty.

This patch adds necessary bits to fuse_file_fallocate() to protect from that
race.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: wait for writeback in fuse_file_fallocate()

2013-10-13T23:08:31+00:00

commit bde52788bdb755b9e4b75db6c434f30e32a0ca0b upstream.

The patch fixes a race between mmap-ed write and fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE):

1) An user makes a page dirty via mmap-ed write.
2) The user performs fallocate(2) with mode == PUNCH_HOLE|KEEP_SIZE
   and  covering the page.
3) Before truncate_pagecache_range call from fuse_file_fallocate,
   the page goes to write-back. The page is fully processed by fuse_writepage
   (including end_page_writeback on the page), but fuse_flush_writepages did
   nothing because fi->writectr < 0.
4) truncate_pagecache_range is called and fuse_file_fallocate is finishing
   by calling fuse_release_nowrite. The latter triggers processing queued
   write-back request which will write stale data to the hole soon.

Changed in v2 (thanks to Brian for suggestion):
 - Do not truncate page cache until FUSE_FALLOCATE succeeded. Otherwise,
   we can end up in returning -ENOTSUPP while user data is already punched
   from page cache. Use filemap_write_and_wait_range() instead.
Changed in v3 (thanks to Miklos for suggestion):
 - fuse_wait_on_writeback() is prone to livelocks; use fuse_set_nowrite()
   instead. So far as we need a dirty-page barrier only, fuse_sync_writes()
   should be enough.
 - rebased to for-linus branch of fuse.git

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: hotfix truncate_pagecache() issue

2013-09-27T00:18:30+00:00

commit 06a7c3c2781409af95000c60a5df743fd4e2f8b4 upstream.

The way how fuse calls truncate_pagecache() from fuse_change_attributes()
is completely wrong. Because, w/o i_mutex held, we never sure whether
'oldsize' and 'attr->size' are valid by the time of execution of
truncate_pagecache(inode, oldsize, attr->size). In fact, as soon as we
released fc->lock in the middle of fuse_change_attributes(), we completely
loose control of actions which may happen with given inode until we reach
truncate_pagecache. The list of potentially dangerous actions includes
mmap-ed reads and writes, ftruncate(2) and write(2) extending file size.

The typical outcome of doing truncate_pagecache() with outdated arguments
is data corruption from user point of view. This is (in some sense)
acceptable in cases when the issue is triggered by a change of the file on
the server (i.e. externally wrt fuse operation), but it is absolutely
intolerable in scenarios when a single fuse client modifies a file without
any external intervention. A real life case I discovered by fsx-linux
looked like this:

1. Shrinking ftruncate(2) comes to fuse_do_setattr(). The latter sends
FUSE_SETATTR to the server synchronously, but before getting fc->lock ...
2. fuse_dentry_revalidate() is asynchronously called. It sends FUSE_LOOKUP
to the server synchronously, then calls fuse_change_attributes(). The
latter updates i_size, releases fc->lock, but before comparing oldsize vs
attr->size..
3. fuse_do_setattr() from the first step proceeds by acquiring fc->lock and
updating attributes and i_size, but now oldsize is equal to
outarg.attr.size because i_size has just been updated (step 2). Hence,
fuse_do_setattr() returns w/o calling truncate_pagecache().
4. As soon as ftruncate(2) completes, the user extends file size by
write(2) making a hole in the middle of file, then reads data from the hole
either by read(2) or mmap-ed read. The user expects to get zero data from
the hole, but gets stale data because truncate_pagecache() is not executed
yet.

The scenario above illustrates one side of the problem: not truncating the
page cache even though we should. Another side corresponds to truncating
page cache too late, when the state of inode changed significantly.
Theoretically, the following is possible:

1. As in the previous scenario fuse_dentry_revalidate() discovered that
i_size changed (due to our own fuse_do_setattr()) and is going to call
truncate_pagecache() for some 'new_size' it believes valid right now. But
by the time that particular truncate_pagecache() is called ...
2. fuse_do_setattr() returns (either having called truncate_pagecache() or
not -- it doesn't matter).
3. The file is extended either by write(2) or ftruncate(2) or fallocate(2).
4. mmap-ed write makes a page in the extended region dirty.

The result will be the lost of data user wrote on the fourth step.

The patch is a hotfix resolving the issue in a simplistic way: let's skip
dangerous i_size update and truncate_pagecache if an operation changing
file size is in progress. This simplistic approach looks correct for the
cases w/o external changes. And to handle them properly, more sophisticated
and intrusive techniques (e.g. NFS-like one) would be required. I'd like to
postpone it until the issue is well discussed on the mailing list(s).

Changed in v2:
 - improved patch description to cover both sides of the issue.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: postpone end_page_writeback() in fuse_writepage_locked()

2013-09-27T00:18:30+00:00

commit 4a4ac4eba1010ef9a804569058ab29e3450c0315 upstream.

The patch fixes a race between ftruncate(2), mmap-ed write and write(2):

1) An user makes a page dirty via mmap-ed write.
2) The user performs shrinking truncate(2) intended to purge the page.
3) Before fuse_do_setattr calls truncate_pagecache, the page goes to
   writeback. fuse_writepage_locked fills FUSE_WRITE request and releases
   the original page by end_page_writeback.
4) fuse_do_setattr() completes and successfully returns. Since now, i_mutex
   is free.
5) Ordinary write(2) extends i_size back to cover the page. Note that
   fuse_send_write_pages do wait for fuse writeback, but for another
   page->index.
6) fuse_writepage_locked proceeds by queueing FUSE_WRITE request.
   fuse_send_writepage is supposed to crop inarg->size of the request,
   but it doesn't because i_size has already been extended back.

Moving end_page_writeback to the end of fuse_writepage_locked fixes the
race because now the fact that truncate_pagecache is successfully returned
infers that fuse_writepage_locked has already called end_page_writeback.
And this, in turn, infers that fuse_flush_writepages has already called
fuse_send_writepage, and the latter used valid (shrunk) i_size. write(2)
could not extend it because of i_mutex held by ftruncate(2).

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: hold i_mutex in fuse_file_fallocate()

2013-06-17T23:39:03+00:00

Changing size of a file on server and local update (fuse_write_update_size)
should be always protected by inode->i_mutex. Otherwise a race like this is
possible:

1. Process 'A' calls fallocate(2) to extend file (~FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE).
fuse_file_fallocate() sends FUSE_FALLOCATE request to the server.
2. Process 'B' calls ftruncate(2) shrinking the file. fuse_do_setattr()
sends shrinking FUSE_SETATTR request to the server and updates local i_size
by i_size_write(inode, outarg.attr.size).
3. Process 'A' resumes execution of fuse_file_fallocate() and calls
fuse_write_update_size(inode, offset + length). But 'offset + length' was
obsoleted by ftruncate from previous step.

Changed in v2 (thanks Brian and Anand for suggestions):
 - made relation between mutex_lock() and fuse_set_nowrite(inode) more
   explicit and clear.
 - updated patch description to use ftruncate(2) in example

Signed-off-by: Maxim V. Patlasov 
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: fix alignment in short read optimization for async_dio

2013-06-03T13:15:42+00:00

The bug was introduced with async_dio feature: trying to optimize short reads,
we cut number-of-bytes-to-read to i_size boundary. Hence the following example:

	truncate --size=300 /mnt/file
	dd if=/mnt/file of=/dev/null iflag=direct

led to FUSE_READ request of 300 bytes size. This turned out to be problem
for userspace fuse implementations who rely on assumption that kernel fuse
does not change alignment of request from client FS.

The patch turns off the optimization if async_dio is disabled. And, if it's
enabled, the patch fixes adjustment of number-of-bytes-to-read to preserve
alignment.

Note, that we cannot throw out short read optimization entirely because
otherwise a direct read of a huge size issued on a tiny file would generate
a huge amount of fuse requests and most of them would be ACKed by userspace
with zero bytes read.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: return -EIOCBQUEUED from fuse_direct_IO() for all async requests

2013-06-03T13:15:42+00:00

If request submission fails for an async request (i.e.,
get_user_pages() returns -ERESTARTSYS), we currently skip the
-EIOCBQUEUED return and drop into wait_for_sync_kiocb() forever.

Avoid this by always returning -EIOCBQUEUED for async requests. If
an error occurs, the error is passed into fuse_aio_complete(),
returned via aio_complete() and thus propagated to userspace via
io_getevents().

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster 
Reviewed-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: update inode size and invalidate attributes on fallocate

2013-05-20T14:58:58+00:00

An fallocate request without FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set can extend the
size of a file. Update the inode size after a successful fallocate.

Also invalidate the inode attributes after a successful fallocate
to ensure we pick up the latest attribute values (i.e., i_blocks).

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: truncate pagecache range on hole punch

2013-05-20T14:58:57+00:00

fuse supports hole punch via the fallocate() FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
interface. When a hole punch is passed through, the page cache
is not cleared and thus allows reading stale data from the cache.

This is easily demonstrable (using FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE) by reading a
smallish random data file into cache, punching a hole and creating
a copy of the file. Drop caches or remount and observe that the
original file no longer matches the file copied after the hole
punch. The original file contains a zeroed range and the latter
file contains stale data.

Protect against writepage requests in progress and punch out the
associated page cache range after a successful client fs hole
punch.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: allocate for_background dio requests based on io->async state

2013-05-14T16:25:44+00:00

Commit 8b41e671 introduced explicit background checking for fuse_req
structures with BUG_ON() checks for the appropriate type of request in
in the associated send functions. Commit bcba24cc introduced the ability
to send dio requests as background requests but does not update the
request allocation based on the type of I/O request. As a result, a
BUG_ON() triggers in the fuse_request_send_background() background path if
an async I/O is sent.

Allocate a request based on the async state of the fuse_io_priv to avoid
the BUG.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi