linux-toradex.git/fs/fuse, branch v3.12.14

fuse: fix pipe_buf_operations

2014-02-13T21:50:10+00:00

commit 28a625cbc2a14f17b83e47ef907b2658576a32aa upstream.

Having this struct in module memory could Oops when if the module is
unloaded while the buffer still persists in a pipe.

Since sock_pipe_buf_ops is essentially the same as fuse_dev_pipe_buf_steal
merge them into nosteal_pipe_buf_ops (this is the same as
default_pipe_buf_ops except stealing the page from the buffer is not
allowed).

Reported-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: no RCU mode in fuse_access()

2013-10-01T14:41:23+00:00

fuse_access() is never called in RCU walk, only on the final component of
access(2) and chdir(2)...

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: readdirplus: fix RCU walk

2013-10-01T14:41:22+00:00

Doing dput(parent) is not valid in RCU walk mode.  In RCU mode it would
probably be okay to update the parent flags, but it's actually not
necessary most of the time...

So only set the FUSE_I_ADVISE_RDPLUS flag on the parent when the entry was
recently initialized by READDIRPLUS.

This is achieved by setting FUSE_I_INIT_RDPLUS on entries added by
READDIRPLUS and only dropping out of RCU mode if this flag is set.
FUSE_I_INIT_RDPLUS is cleared once the FUSE_I_ADVISE_RDPLUS flag is set in
the parent.

Reported-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

fuse: don't check_submounts_and_drop() in RCU walk

2013-10-01T14:41:22+00:00

If revalidate finds an invalid dentry in RCU walk mode, let the VFS deal
with it instead of calling check_submounts_and_drop() which is not prepared
for being called from RCU walk.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

fuse: fix fallocate vs. ftruncate race

2013-09-18T12:19:59+00:00

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 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

fuse: wait for writeback in fuse_file_fallocate()

2013-09-18T12:19:59+00:00

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 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter

2013-09-12T22:38:02+00:00

truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression").  Let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page-writeback.c: add strictlimit feature

2013-09-11T22:58:04+00:00

The feature prevents mistrusted filesystems (ie: FUSE mounts created by
unprivileged users) to grow a large number of dirty pages before
throttling.  For such filesystems balance_dirty_pages always check bdi
counters against bdi limits.  I.e.  even if global "nr_dirty" is under
"freerun", it's not allowed to skip bdi checks.  The only use case for now
is fuse: it sets bdi max_ratio to 1% by default and system administrators
are supposed to expect that this limit won't be exceeded.

The feature is on if a BDI is marked by BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT flag.  A
filesystem may set the flag when it initializes its BDI.

The problematic scenario comes from the fact that nobody pays attention to
the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter (i.e.  number of pages under fuse
writeback).  The implementation of fuse writeback releases original page
(by calling end_page_writeback) almost immediately.  A fuse request queued
for real processing bears a copy of original page.  Hence, if userspace
fuse daemon doesn't finalize write requests in timely manner, an
aggressive mmap writer can pollute virtually all memory by those temporary
fuse page copies.  They are carefully accounted in NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP, but
nobody cares.

To make further explanations shorter, let me use "NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP
problem" as a shortcut for "a possibility of uncontrolled grow of amount
of RAM consumed by temporary pages allocated by kernel fuse to process
writeback".

The problem was very easy to reproduce.  There is a trivial example
filesystem implementation in fuse userspace distribution: fusexmp_fh.c.  I
added "sleep(1);" to the write methods, then recompiled and mounted it.
Then created a huge file on the mount point and run a simple program which
mmap-ed the file to a memory region, then wrote a data to the region.  An
hour later I observed almost all RAM consumed by fuse writeback.  Since
then some unrelated changes in kernel fuse made it more difficult to
reproduce, but it is still possible now.

Putting this theoretical happens-in-the-lab thing aside, there is another
thing that really hurts real world (FUSE) users.  This is write-through
page cache policy FUSE currently uses.  I.e.  handling write(2), kernel
fuse populates page cache and flushes user data to the server
synchronously.  This is excessively suboptimal.  Pavel Emelyanov's patches
("writeback cache policy") solve the problem, but they also make resolving
NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP problem absolutely necessary.  Otherwise, simply copying
a huge file to a fuse mount would result in memory starvation.  Miklos,
the maintainer of FUSE, believes strictlimit feature the way to go.

And eventually putting FUSE topics aside, there is one more use-case for
strictlimit feature.  Using a slow USB stick (mass storage) in a machine
with huge amount of RAM installed is a well-known pain.  Let's make simple
computations.  Assuming 64GB of RAM installed, existing implementation of
balance_dirty_pages will start throttling only after 9.6GB of RAM becomes
dirty (freerun == 15% of total RAM).  So, the command "cp 9GB_file
/media/my-usb-storage/" may return in a few seconds, but subsequent
"umount /media/my-usb-storage/" will take more than two hours if effective
throughput of the storage is, to say, 1MB/sec.

After inclusion of strictlimit feature, it will be trivial to add a knob
(e.g.  /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/x:y/strictlimit) to enable it on demand.
Manually or via udev rule.  May be I'm wrong, but it seems to be quite a
natural desire to limit the amount of dirty memory for some devices we are
not fully trust (in the sense of sustainable throughput).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning in page-writeback.c]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2013-09-09T16:18:23+00:00

Pull fuse bugfixes from Miklos Szeredi:
 "Just a bunch of bugfixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: use list_for_each_entry() for list traversing
  fuse: readdir: check for slash in names
  fuse: hotfix truncate_pagecache() issue
  fuse: invalidate inode attributes on xattr modification
  fuse: postpone end_page_writeback() in fuse_writepage_locked()

fuse: drop dentry on failed revalidate

2013-09-05T20:23:54+00:00

Drop a subtree when we find that it has moved or been delated.  This can be
done as long as there are no submounts under this location.

If the directory was moved and we come across the same directory in a
future lookup it will be reconnected by d_materialise_unique().

Signed-off-by: Anand Avati 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro