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2019-11-26Revert "vfs: properly and reliably lock f_pos in fdget_pos()"Linus Torvalds1-1/+5
This reverts commit 0be0ee71816b2b6725e2b4f32ad6726c9d729777. I was hoping it would be benign to switch over entirely to FMODE_STREAM, and we'd have just a couple of small fixups we'd need, but it looks like we're not quite there yet. While it worked fine on both my desktop and laptop, they are fairly similar in other respects, and run mostly the same loads. Kenneth Crudup reports that it seems to break both his vmware installation and the KDE upower service. In both cases apparently leading to timeouts due to waitinmg for the f_pos lock. There are a number of character devices in particular that definitely want stream-like behavior, but that currently don't get marked as streams, and as a result get the exclusion between concurrent read()/write() on the same file descriptor. Which doesn't work well for them. The most obvious example if this is /dev/console and /dev/tty, which use console_fops and tty_fops respectively (and ptmx_fops for the pty master side). It may be that it's just this that causes problems, but we clearly weren't ready yet. Because there's a number of other likely common cases that don't have llseek implementations and would seem to act as stream devices: /dev/fuse (fuse_dev_operations) /dev/mcelog (mce_chrdev_ops) /dev/mei0 (mei_fops) /dev/net/tun (tun_fops) /dev/nvme0 (nvme_dev_fops) /dev/tpm0 (tpm_fops) /proc/self/ns/mnt (ns_file_operations) /dev/snd/pcm* (snd_pcm_f_ops[]) and while some of these could be trivially automatically detected by the vfs layer when the character device is opened by just noticing that they have no read or write operations either, it often isn't that obvious. Some character devices most definitely do use the file position, even if they don't allow seeking: the firmware update code, for example, uses simple_read_from_buffer() that does use f_pos, but doesn't allow seeking back and forth. We'll revisit this when there's a better way to detect the problem and fix it (possibly with a coccinelle script to do more of the FMODE_STREAM annotations). Reported-by: Kenneth R. Crudup <kenny@panix.com> Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-11-25vfs: properly and reliably lock f_pos in fdget_pos()Linus Torvalds1-5/+1
fdget_pos() is used by file operations that will read and update f_pos: things like "read()", "write()" and "lseek()" (but not, for example, "pread()/pwrite" that get their file positions elsewhere). However, it had two separate escape clauses for this, because not everybody wants or needs serialization of the file position. The first and most obvious case is the "file descriptor doesn't have a position at all", ie a stream-like file. Except we didn't actually use FMODE_STREAM, but instead used FMODE_ATOMIC_POS. The reason for that was that FMODE_STREAM didn't exist back in the days, but also that we didn't want to mark all the special cases, so we only marked the ones that _required_ position atomicity according to POSIX - regular files and directories. The case one was intentionally lazy, but now that we _do_ have FMODE_STREAM we could and should just use it. With the change to use FMODE_STREAM, there are no remaining uses for FMODE_ATOMIC_POS, and all the code to set it is deleted. Any cases where we don't want the serialization because the driver (or subsystem) doesn't use the file position should just be updated to do "stream_open()". We've done that for all the obvious and common situations, we may need a few more. Quoting Kirill Smelkov in the original FMODE_STREAM thread (see link below for full email): "And I appreciate if people could help at least somehow with "getting rid of mixed case entirely" (i.e. always lock f_pos_lock on !FMODE_STREAM), because this transition starts to diverge from my particular use-case too far. To me it makes sense to do that transition as follows: - convert nonseekable_open -> stream_open via stream_open.cocci; - audit other nonseekable_open calls and convert left users that truly don't depend on position to stream_open; - extend stream_open.cocci to analyze alloc_file_pseudo as well (this will cover pipes and sockets), or maybe convert pipes and sockets to FMODE_STREAM manually; - extend stream_open.cocci to analyze file_operations that use no_llseek or noop_llseek, but do not use nonseekable_open or alloc_file_pseudo. This might find files that have stream semantic but are opened differently; - extend stream_open.cocci to analyze file_operations whose .read/.write do not use ppos at all (independently of how file was opened); - ... - after that remove FMODE_ATOMIC_POS and always take f_pos_lock if !FMODE_STREAM; - gather bug reports for deadlocked read/write and convert missed cases to FMODE_STREAM, probably extending stream_open.cocci along the road to catch similar cases i.e. always take f_pos_lock unless a file is explicitly marked as being stream, and try to find and cover all files that are streams" We have not done the "extend stream_open.cocci to analyze alloc_file_pseudo" as well, but the previous commit did manually handle the case of pipes and sockets. The other case where we can avoid locking f_pos is the "this file descriptor only has a single user and it is us, and thus there is no need to lock it". The second test was correct, although a bit subtle and worth just re-iterating here. There are two kinds of other sources of references to the same file descriptor: file descriptors that have been explicitly shared across fork() or with dup(), and file tables having elevated reference counts due to threading (or explicit file sharing with clone()). The first case would have incremented the file count explicitly, and in the second case the previous __fdget() would have incremented it for us and set the FDPUT_FPUT flag. But in both cases the file count would be greater than one, so the "file_count(file) > 1" test catches both situations. Also note that if file_count is 1, that also means that no other thread can have access to the file table, so there also cannot be races with concurrent calls to dup()/fork()/clone() that would increment the file count any other way. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190413184404.GA13490@deco.navytux.spb.ru Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> Cc: Eic Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-09-26fs: remove unlikely() from WARN_ON() conditionDenis Efremov1-1/+1
"unlikely(WARN_ON(x))" is excessive. WARN_ON() already uses unlikely() internally. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190829165025.15750-5-efremov@linux.com Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-09-24mm,thp: avoid writes to file with THP in pagecacheSong Liu1-0/+8
In previous patch, an application could put part of its text section in THP via madvise(). These THPs will be protected from writes when the application is still running (TXTBSY). However, after the application exits, the file is available for writes. This patch avoids writes to file THP by dropping page cache for the file when the file is open for write. A new counter nr_thps is added to struct address_space. In do_dentry_open(), if the file is open for write and nr_thps is non-zero, we drop page cache for the whole file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190801184244.3169074-8-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-07-24access: avoid the RCU grace period for the temporary subjective credentialsLinus Torvalds1-0/+19
It turns out that 'access()' (and 'faccessat()') can cause a lot of RCU work because it installs a temporary credential that gets allocated and freed for each system call. The allocation and freeing overhead is mostly benign, but because credentials can be accessed under the RCU read lock, the freeing involves a RCU grace period. Which is not a huge deal normally, but if you have a lot of access() calls, this causes a fair amount of seconday damage: instead of having a nice alloc/free patterns that hits in hot per-CPU slab caches, you have all those delayed free's, and on big machines with hundreds of cores, the RCU overhead can end up being enormous. But it turns out that all of this is entirely unnecessary. Exactly because access() only installs the credential as the thread-local subjective credential, the temporary cred pointer doesn't actually need to be RCU free'd at all. Once we're done using it, we can just free it synchronously and avoid all the RCU overhead. So add a 'non_rcu' flag to 'struct cred', which can be set by users that know they only use it in non-RCU context (there are other potential users for this). We can make it a union with the rcu freeing list head that we need for the RCU case, so this doesn't need any extra storage. Note that this also makes 'get_current_cred()' clear the new non_rcu flag, in case we have filesystems that take a long-term reference to the cred and then expect the RCU delayed freeing afterwards. It's not entirely clear that this is required, but it makes for clear semantics: the subjective cred remains non-RCU as long as you only access it synchronously using the thread-local accessors, but you _can_ use it as a generic cred if you want to. It is possible that we should just remove the whole RCU markings for ->cred entirely. Only ->real_cred is really supposed to be accessed through RCU, and the long-term cred copies that nfs uses might want to explicitly re-enable RCU freeing if required, rather than have get_current_cred() do it implicitly. But this is a "minimal semantic changes" change for the immediate problem. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Glauber <jglauber@marvell.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Jayachandran Chandrasekharan Nair <jnair@marvell.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-21treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed filesThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-06vfs: pass ppos=NULL to .read()/.write() of FMODE_STREAM filesKirill Smelkov1-2/+3
This amends commit 10dce8af3422 ("fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock") in how position is passed into .read()/.write() handler for stream-like files: Rasmus noticed that we currently pass 0 as position and ignore any position change if that is done by a file implementation. This papers over bugs if ppos is used in files that declare themselves as being stream-like as such bugs will go unnoticed. Even if a file implementation is correctly converted into using stream_open, its read/write later could be changed to use ppos and even though that won't be working correctly, that bug might go unnoticed without someone doing wrong behaviour analysis. It is thus better to pass ppos=NULL into read/write for stream-like files as that don't give any chance for ppos usage bugs because it will oops if ppos is ever used inside .read() or .write(). Note 1: rw_verify_area, new_sync_{read,write} needs to be updated because they are called by vfs_read/vfs_write & friends before file_operations .read/.write . Note 2: if file backend uses new-style .read_iter/.write_iter, position is still passed into there as non-pointer kiocb.ki_pos . Currently stream_open.cocci (semantic patch added by 10dce8af3422) ignores files whose file_operations has *_iter methods. Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
2019-04-06fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can ↵Kirill Smelkov1-0/+18
run simultaneously without deadlock Commit 9c225f2655e3 ("vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX") added locking for file.f_pos access and in particular made concurrent read and write not possible - now both those functions take f_pos lock for the whole run, and so if e.g. a read is blocked waiting for data, write will deadlock waiting for that read to complete. This caused regression for stream-like files where previously read and write could run simultaneously, but after that patch could not do so anymore. See e.g. commit 581d21a2d02a ("xenbus: fix deadlock on writes to /proc/xen/xenbus") which fixes such regression for particular case of /proc/xen/xenbus. The patch that added f_pos lock in 2014 did so to guarantee POSIX thread safety for read/write/lseek and added the locking to file descriptors of all regular files. In 2014 that thread-safety problem was not new as it was already discussed earlier in 2006. However even though 2006'th version of Linus's patch was adding f_pos locking "only for files that are marked seekable with FMODE_LSEEK (thus avoiding the stream-like objects like pipes and sockets)", the 2014 version - the one that actually made it into the tree as 9c225f2655e3 - is doing so irregardless of whether a file is seekable or not. See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/53022DB1.4070805@gmail.com/ https://lwn.net/Articles/180387 https://lwn.net/Articles/180396 for historic context. The reason that it did so is, probably, that there are many files that are marked non-seekable, but e.g. their read implementation actually depends on knowing current position to correctly handle the read. Some examples: kernel/power/user.c snapshot_read fs/debugfs/file.c u32_array_read fs/fuse/control.c fuse_conn_waiting_read + ... drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c atk_debugfs_ggrp_read arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c hypfs_read_iter ... Despite that, many nonseekable_open users implement read and write with pure stream semantics - they don't depend on passed ppos at all. And for those cases where read could wait for something inside, it creates a situation similar to xenbus - the write could be never made to go until read is done, and read is waiting for some, potentially external, event, for potentially unbounded time -> deadlock. Besides xenbus, there are 14 such places in the kernel that I've found with semantic patch (see below): drivers/xen/evtchn.c:667:8-24: ERROR: evtchn_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c:963:8-24: ERROR: capi_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/input/evdev.c:527:1-17: ERROR: evdev_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c:1685:7-23: ERROR: cm4000_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() net/rfkill/core.c:1146:8-24: ERROR: rfkill_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c:488:1-17: ERROR: fs3270_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c:310:1-17: ERROR: ld_usb_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/hid/uhid.c:635:1-17: ERROR: uhid_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c:80:1-17: ERROR: batadv_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c:198:1-17: ERROR: lirc_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/leds/uleds.c:77:1-17: ERROR: uleds_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/input/misc/uinput.c:400:1-17: ERROR: uinput_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c:985:7-23: ERROR: umad_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() drivers/gnss/core.c:45:1-17: ERROR: gnss_fops: .read() can deadlock .write() In addition to the cases above another regression caused by f_pos locking is that now FUSE filesystems that implement open with FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE flag, can no longer implement bidirectional stream-like files - for the same reason as above e.g. read can deadlock write locking on file.f_pos in the kernel. FUSE's FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE was added in 2008 in a7c1b990f715 ("fuse: implement nonseekable open") to support OSSPD. OSSPD implements /dev/dsp in userspace with FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE flag, with corresponding read and write routines not depending on current position at all, and with both read and write being potentially blocking operations: See https://github.com/libfuse/osspd https://lwn.net/Articles/308445 https://github.com/libfuse/osspd/blob/14a9cff0/osspd.c#L1406 https://github.com/libfuse/osspd/blob/14a9cff0/osspd.c#L1438-L1477 https://github.com/libfuse/osspd/blob/14a9cff0/osspd.c#L1479-L1510 Corresponding libfuse example/test also describes FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE as "somewhat pipe-like files ..." with read handler not using offset. However that test implements only read without write and cannot exercise the deadlock scenario: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/fuse-3.4.2-3-ga1bff7d/example/poll.c#L124-L131 https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/fuse-3.4.2-3-ga1bff7d/example/poll.c#L146-L163 https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/fuse-3.4.2-3-ga1bff7d/example/poll.c#L209-L216 I've actually hit the read vs write deadlock for real while implementing my FUSE filesystem where there is /head/watch file, for which open creates separate bidirectional socket-like stream in between filesystem and its user with both read and write being later performed simultaneously. And there it is semantically not easy to split the stream into two separate read-only and write-only channels: https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/wendelin.core/blob/f13aa600/wcfs/wcfs.go#L88-169 Let's fix this regression. The plan is: 1. We can't change nonseekable_open to include &~FMODE_ATOMIC_POS - doing so would break many in-kernel nonseekable_open users which actually use ppos in read/write handlers. 2. Add stream_open() to kernel to open stream-like non-seekable file descriptors. Read and write on such file descriptors would never use nor change ppos. And with that property on stream-like files read and write will be running without taking f_pos lock - i.e. read and write could be running simultaneously. 3. With semantic patch search and convert to stream_open all in-kernel nonseekable_open users for which read and write actually do not depend on ppos and where there is no other methods in file_operations which assume @offset access. 4. Add FOPEN_STREAM to fs/fuse/ and open in-kernel file-descriptors via steam_open if that bit is present in filesystem open reply. It was tempting to change fs/fuse/ open handler to use stream_open instead of nonseekable_open on just FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE flags, but grepping through Debian codesearch shows users of FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE, and in particular GVFS which actually uses offset in its read and write handlers https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=-%3Enonseekable+%3D https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1080 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1247-1346 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1399-1481 so if we would do such a change it will break a real user. 5. Add stream_open and FOPEN_STREAM handling to stable kernels starting from v3.14+ (the kernel where 9c225f2655 first appeared). This will allow to patch OSSPD and other FUSE filesystems that provide stream-like files to return FOPEN_STREAM | FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE in their open handler and this way avoid the deadlock on all kernel versions. This should work because fs/fuse/ ignores unknown open flags returned from a filesystem and so passing FOPEN_STREAM to a kernel that is not aware of this flag cannot hurt. In turn the kernel that is not aware of FOPEN_STREAM will be < v3.14 where just FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE is sufficient to implement streams without read vs write deadlock. This patch adds stream_open, converts /proc/xen/xenbus to it and adds semantic patch to automatically locate in-kernel places that are either required to be converted due to read vs write deadlock, or that are just safe to be converted because read and write do not use ppos and there are no other funky methods in file_operations. Regarding semantic patch I've verified each generated change manually - that it is correct to convert - and each other nonseekable_open instance left - that it is either not correct to convert there, or that it is not converted due to current stream_open.cocci limitations. The script also does not convert files that should be valid to convert, but that currently have .llseek = noop_llseek or generic_file_llseek for unknown reason despite file being opened with nonseekable_open (e.g. drivers/input/mousedev.c) Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Yongzhi Pan <panyongzhi@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-29fs/open.c: allow opening only regular files during execve()Tetsuo Handa1-0/+6
syzbot is hitting lockdep warning [1] due to trying to open a fifo during an execve() operation. But we don't need to open non regular files during an execve() operation, for all files which we will need are the executable file itself and the interpreter programs like /bin/sh and ld-linux.so.2 . Since the manpage for execve(2) says that execve() returns EACCES when the file or a script interpreter is not a regular file, and the manpage for uselib(2) says that uselib() can return EACCES, and we use FMODE_EXEC when opening for execve()/uselib(), we can bail out if a non regular file is requested with FMODE_EXEC set. Since this deadlock followed by khungtaskd warnings is trivially reproducible by a local unprivileged user, and syzbot's frequent crash due to this deadlock defers finding other bugs, let's workaround this deadlock until we get a chance to find a better solution. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=b5095bfec44ec84213bac54742a82483aad578ce Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1552044017-7890-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+e93a80c1bb7c5c56e522461c149f8bf55eab1b2b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Fixes: 8924feff66f35fe2 ("splice: lift pipe_lock out of splice_to_pipe()") Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.9+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-21Merge tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-21/+23
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi: "This contains two new features: - Stack file operations: this allows removal of several hacks from the VFS, proper interaction of read-only open files with copy-up, possibility to implement fs modifying ioctls properly, and others. - Metadata only copy-up: when file is on lower layer and only metadata is modified (except size) then only copy up the metadata and continue to use the data from the lower file" * tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (66 commits) ovl: Enable metadata only feature ovl: Do not do metacopy only for ioctl modifying file attr ovl: Do not do metadata only copy-up for truncate operation ovl: add helper to force data copy-up ovl: Check redirect on index as well ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked ovl: Set redirect on metacopy files upon rename ovl: Do not set dentry type ORIGIN for broken hardlinks ovl: Add an inode flag OVL_CONST_INO ovl: Treat metacopy dentries as type OVL_PATH_MERGE ovl: Check redirects for metacopy files ovl: Move some dir related ovl_lookup_single() code in else block ovl: Do not expose metacopy only dentry from d_real() ovl: Open file with data except for the case of fsync ovl: Add helper ovl_inode_realdata() ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode ovl: Fix ovl_getattr() to get number of blocks from lower ovl: Add helper ovl_dentry_lowerdata() to get lower data dentry ovl: Copy up meta inode data from lowest data inode ovl: Modify ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentry ...
2018-07-18Revert "vfs: do get_write_access() on upper layer of overlayfs"Miklos Szeredi1-13/+2
This reverts commit 4d0c5ba2ff79ef9f5188998b29fd28fcb05f3667. We now get write access on both overlay and underlying layers so this patch is no longer needed for correct operation. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-07-18Revert "vfs: add flags to d_real()"Miklos Szeredi1-1/+1
This reverts commit 495e642939114478a5237a7d91661ba93b76f15a. No user of "flags" argument of d_real() remain. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-07-18Revert "ovl: don't allow writing ioctl on lower layer"Miklos Szeredi1-2/+2
This reverts commit 7c6893e3c9abf6a9676e060a1e35e5caca673d57. Overlayfs no longer relies on the vfs for checking writability of files. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-07-18vfs: don't open realMiklos Szeredi1-6/+1
Let overlayfs do its thing when opening a file. This enables stacking and fixes the corner case when a file is opened for read, modified through a writable open, and data is read from the read-only file. After this patch the read-only open will not return stale data even in this case. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-18vfs: make open_with_fake_path() not contribute to nr_filesMiklos Szeredi1-1/+1
Stacking file operations in overlay will store an extra open file for each overlay file opened. The overhead is just that of "struct file" which is about 256bytes, because overlay already pins an extra dentry and inode when the file is open, which add up to a much larger overhead. For fear of breaking working setups, don't start accounting the extra file. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-07-12new helper: open_with_fake_path()Al Viro1-0/+18
open a file by given inode, faking ->f_path. Use with shitloads of caution - at the very least you'd damn better make sure that some dentry alias of that inode is pinned down by the path in question. Again, this is no general-purpose interface and I hope it will eventually go away. Right now overlayfs wants something like that, but nothing else should. Any out-of-tree code with bright idea of using this one *will* eventually get hurt, with zero notice and great delight on my part. I refuse to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), especially in situations when it's really EXPORT_SYMBOL_DONT_USE_IT(), but don't take that export as "you are welcome to use it". Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12->atomic_open(): return 0 in all success casesAl Viro1-2/+2
FMODE_OPENED can be used to distingusish "successful open" from the "called finish_no_open(), do it yourself" cases. Since finish_no_open() has been adjusted, no changes in the instances were actually needed. The caller has been adjusted. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12getting rid of 'opened' argument of ->atomic_open() - part 1Al Viro1-2/+1
'opened' argument of finish_open() is unused. Kill it. Signed-off-by Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12switch all remaining checks for FILE_OPENED to FMODE_OPENEDAl Viro1-7/+2
... and don't bother with setting FILE_OPENED at all. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12now we can fold open_check_o_direct() into do_dentry_open()Al Viro1-12/+5
These checks are better off in do_dentry_open(); the reason we couldn't put them there used to be that callers couldn't tell what kind of cleanup would do_dentry_open() failure call for. Now that we have FMODE_OPENED, cleanup is the same in all cases - it's simply fput(). So let's fold that into do_dentry_open(), as Christoph's patch tried to. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12fold put_filp() into fput()Al Viro1-8/+3
Just check FMODE_OPENED in __fput() and be done with that... Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12introduce FMODE_OPENEDAl Viro1-1/+2
basically, "is that instance set up enough for regular fput(), or do we want put_filp() for that one". NOTE: the only alloc_file() caller that could be followed by put_filp() is in arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c, which is (Kconfig-level) broken. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12security_file_open(): lose cred argumentAl Viro1-1/+1
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12get rid of cred argument of vfs_open() and do_dentry_open()Al Viro1-9/+6
always equal to ->f_cred Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12pass ->f_flags value to alloc_empty_file()Al Viro1-5/+3
... and have it set the f_flags-derived part of ->f_mode. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12pass creds to get_empty_filp(), make sure dentry_open() passes the right credsAl Viro1-1/+1
... and rename get_empty_filp() to alloc_empty_file(). dentry_open() gets creds as argument, but the only thing that sees those is security_file_open() - file->f_cred still ends up with current_cred(). For almost all callers it's the same thing, but there are several broken cases. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-10make sure do_dentry_open() won't return positive as an errorAl Viro1-0/+2
An ->open() instances really, really should not be doing that. There's a lot of places e.g. around atomic_open() that could be confused by that, so let's catch that early. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-10turn filp_clone_open() into inline wrapper for dentry_open()Al Viro1-20/+0
it's exactly the same thing as dentry_open(&file->f_path, file->f_flags, file->f_cred) ... and rename it to file_clone_open(), while we are at it. 'filp' naming convention is bogus; sure, it's "file pointer", but we generally don't do that kind of Hungarian notation. Some of the instances have too many callers to touch, but this one has only two, so let's sanitize it while we can... Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-06-03Revert "fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_open"Al Viro1-18/+26
This reverts commit cab64df194667dc5d9d786f0a895f647f5501c0d. Having vfs_open() in some cases drop the reference to struct file combined with error = vfs_open(path, f, cred); if (error) { put_filp(f); return ERR_PTR(error); } return f; is flat-out wrong. It used to be error = vfs_open(path, f, cred); if (!error) { /* from now on we need fput() to dispose of f */ error = open_check_o_direct(f); if (error) { fput(f); f = ERR_PTR(error); } } else { put_filp(f); f = ERR_PTR(error); } and sure, having that open_check_o_direct() boilerplate gotten rid of is nice, but not that way... Worse, another call chain (via finish_open()) is FUBAR now wrt FILE_OPENED handling - in that case we get error returned, with file already hit by fput() *AND* FILE_OPENED not set. Guess what happens in path_openat(), when it hits if (!(opened & FILE_OPENED)) { BUG_ON(!error); put_filp(file); } The root cause of all that crap is that the callers of do_dentry_open() have no way to tell which way did it fail; while that could be fixed up (by passing something like int *opened to do_dentry_open() and have it marked if we'd called ->open()), it's probably much too late in the cycle to do so right now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-06Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-26/+18
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff, including Christoph's I_DIRTY patches" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs: move I_DIRTY_INODE to fs.h ubifs: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) call ntfs: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) call gfs2: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) calls fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_open vfs: Replace stray non-ASCII homoglyph characters with their ASCII equivalents vfs: make sure struct filename->iname is word-aligned get rid of pointless includes of fs_struct.h [poll] annotate SAA6588_CMD_POLL users
2018-04-02fs: add ksys_fallocate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_fallocate()Dominik Brodowski1-1/+6
Using the ksys_fallocate() wrapper allows us to get rid of in-kernel calls to the sys_fallocate() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_fallocate(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add ksys_truncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_truncate()Dominik Brodowski1-1/+1
Using the ksys_truncate() wrapper allows us to get rid of in-kernel calls to the sys_truncate() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_truncate(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add ksys_open() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_open()Dominik Brodowski1-1/+1
Using this wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_open() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_open(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add ksys_close() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_close()Dominik Brodowski1-1/+0
Using the ksys_close() wrapper allows us to get rid of in-kernel calls to the sys_close() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_close(), with one subtle difference: The few places which checked the return value did not care about the return value re-writing in sys_close(), so simply use a wrapper around __close_fd(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add ksys_ftruncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ftruncate()Dominik Brodowski1-1/+1
Using the ksys_ftruncate() wrapper allows us to get rid of in-kernel calls to the sys_ftruncate() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_ftruncate(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add do_fchownat(), ksys_fchown() helpers and ksys_{,l}chown() wrappersDominik Brodowski1-6/+17
Using the fs-interal do_fchownat() wrapper allows us to get rid of fs-internal calls to the sys_fchownat() syscall. Introducing the ksys_fchown() helper and the ksys_{,}chown() wrappers allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_{,l,f}chown() syscalls. The ksys_ prefix denotes that these functions are meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscalls. In particular, they use the same calling convention as sys_{,l,f}chown(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add do_faccessat() helper and ksys_access() wrapper; remove in-kernel ↵Dominik Brodowski1-2/+7
calls to syscall Using the fs-internal do_faccessat() helper allows us to get rid of fs-internal calls to the sys_faccessat() syscall. Introducing the ksys_access() wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_access() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_access(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add ksys_fchmod() and do_fchmodat() helpers and ksys_chmod() wrapper; ↵Dominik Brodowski1-3/+14
remove in-kernel calls to syscall Using the fs-internal do_fchmodat() helper allows us to get rid of fs-internal calls to the sys_fchmodat() syscall. Introducing the ksys_fchmod() helper and the ksys_chmod() wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_fchmod() and sys_chmod() syscalls. The ksys_ prefix denotes that these functions are meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscalls. In particular, they use the same calling convention as sys_fchmod() and sys_chmod(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add ksys_chdir() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_chdir()Dominik Brodowski1-1/+6
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_chdir() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_chdir(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02fs: add ksys_chroot() helper; remove-in kernel calls to sys_chroot()Dominik Brodowski1-1/+6
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_chroot() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_chroot(). In the near future, the fs-external callers of ksys_chroot() should be converted to use kern_path()/set_fs_root() directly. Then ksys_chroot() can be moved within sys_chroot() again. This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-03-28fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_openChristoph Hellwig1-26/+18
do_dentry_open is where we do the actual open of the file, so this is where we should do our O_DIRECT sanity check to cover all potential callers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-09-05ovl: don't allow writing ioctl on lower layerMiklos Szeredi1-2/+2
Problem with ioctl() is that it's a file operation, yet often used as an inode operation (i.e. modify the inode despite the file being opened for read-only). mnt_want_write_file() is used by filesystems in such cases to get write access on an arbitrary open file. Since overlayfs lets filesystems do all file operations, including ioctl, this can lead to mnt_want_write_file() returning OK for a lower file and modification of that lower file. This patch prevents modification by checking if the file is from an overlayfs lower layer and returning EPERM in that case. Need to introduce a mnt_want_write_file_path() variant that still does the old thing for inode operations that can do the copy up + modification correctly in such cases (fchown, fsetxattr, fremovexattr). This does not address the correctness of such ioctls on overlayfs (the correct way would be to copy up and attempt to perform ioctl on upper file). In theory this could be a regression. We very much hope that nobody is relying on such a hack in any sane setup. While this patch meddles in VFS code, it has no effect on non-overlayfs filesystems. Reported-by: "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2017-09-04vfs: add flags to d_real()Miklos Szeredi1-2/+2
Add a separate flags argument (in addition to the open flags) to control the behavior of d_real(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2017-07-07Merge tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton: "This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the series. The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their writes have made it to the backing store. For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This model really sucks for userland. Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0 (unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized setups that coordination may even not be possible. But wait...it gets worse! The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will (incorrectly) return 0. This pile aims to do three things: 1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call, regardless of what internal callers are doing 2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change, but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it. 3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what filesystems should do in this situation. To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland. Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess. There is a lot of work remaining here: 1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual filesystem trees. 2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for prime time yet. This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this: https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/ https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/" * tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux: btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty
2017-07-06fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reportingJeff Layton1-0/+3
Most filesystems currently use mapping_set_error and filemap_check_errors for setting and reporting/clearing writeback errors at the mapping level. filemap_check_errors is indirectly called from most of the filemap_fdatawait_* functions and from filemap_write_and_wait*. These functions are called from all sorts of contexts to wait on writeback to finish -- e.g. mostly in fsync, but also in truncate calls, getattr, etc. The non-fsync callers are problematic. We should be reporting writeback errors during fsync, but many places spread over the tree clear out errors before they can be properly reported, or report errors at nonsensical times. If I get -EIO on a stat() call, there is no reason for me to assume that it is because some previous writeback failed. The fact that it also clears out the error such that a subsequent fsync returns 0 is a bug, and a nasty one since that's potentially silent data corruption. This patch adds a small bit of new infrastructure for setting and reporting errors during address_space writeback. While the above was my original impetus for adding this, I think it's also the case that current fsync semantics are just problematic for userland. Most applications that call fsync do so to ensure that the data they wrote has hit the backing store. In the case where there are multiple writers to the file at the same time, this is really hard to determine. The first one to call fsync will see any stored error, and the rest get back 0. The processes with open fds may not be associated with one another in any way. They could even be in different containers, so ensuring coordination between all fsync callers is not really an option. One way to remedy this would be to track what file descriptor was used to dirty the file, but that's rather cumbersome and would likely be slow. However, there is a simpler way to improve the semantics here without incurring too much overhead. This set adds an errseq_t to struct address_space, and a corresponding one is added to struct file. Writeback errors are recorded in the mapping's errseq_t, and the one in struct file is used as the "since" value. This changes the semantics of the Linux fsync implementation such that applications can now use it to determine whether there were any writeback errors since fsync(fd) was last called (or since the file was opened in the case of fsync having never been called). Note that those writeback errors may have occurred when writing data that was dirtied via an entirely different fd, but that's the case now with the current mapping_set_error/filemap_check_error infrastructure. This will at least prevent you from getting a false report of success. The new behavior is still consistent with the POSIX spec, and is more reliable for application developers. This patch just adds some basic infrastructure for doing this, and ensures that the f_wb_err "cursor" is properly set when a file is opened. Later patches will change the existing code to use this new infrastructure for reporting errors at fsync time. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-06-27fs: add fcntl() interface for setting/getting write life time hintsJens Axboe1-0/+1
Define a set of write life time hints: RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET No hint information set RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE No hints about write life time RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT Data written has a short life time RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM Data written has a medium life time RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG Data written has a long life time RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME Data written has an extremely long life time The intent is for these values to be relative to each other, no absolute meaning should be attached to these flag names. Add an fcntl interface for querying these flags, and also for setting them as well: F_GET_RW_HINT Returns the read/write hint set on the underlying inode. F_SET_RW_HINT Set one of the above write hints on the underlying inode. F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT Returns the read/write hint set on the file descriptor. F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT Set one of the above write hints on the file descriptor. The user passes in a 64-bit pointer to get/set these values, and the interface returns 0/-1 on success/error. Sample program testing/implementing basic setting/getting of write hints is below. Add support for storing the write life time hint in the inode flags and in struct file as well, and pass them to the kiocb flags. If both a file and its corresponding inode has a write hint, then we use the one in the file, if available. The file hint can be used for sync/direct IO, for buffered writeback only the inode hint is available. This is in preparation for utilizing these hints in the block layer, to guide on-media data placement. /* * writehint.c: get or set an inode write hint */ #include <stdio.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <inttypes.h> #ifndef F_GET_RW_HINT #define F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE 1024 #define F_GET_RW_HINT (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 11) #define F_SET_RW_HINT (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 12) #endif static char *str[] = { "RWF_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME" }; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { uint64_t hint; int fd, ret; if (argc < 2) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: file <hint>\n", argv[0]); return 1; } fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) { perror("open"); return 2; } if (argc > 2) { hint = atoi(argv[2]); ret = fcntl(fd, F_SET_RW_HINT, &hint); if (ret < 0) { perror("fcntl: F_SET_RW_HINT"); return 4; } } ret = fcntl(fd, F_GET_RW_HINT, &hint); if (ret < 0) { perror("fcntl: F_GET_RW_HINT"); return 3; } printf("%s: hint %s\n", argv[1], str[hint]); close(fd); return 0; } Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-05-12Merge branch 'work.sane_pwd' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Making sure that something like a referral point won't end up as pwd or root. The main part is the last commit (fixing mntns_install()); that one fixes a hard-to-hit race. The fchdir() commit is making fchdir(2) a bit more robust - it should be impossible to get opened files (even O_PATH ones) for referral points in the first place, so the existing checks are OK, but checking the same thing as in chdir(2) is just as cheap. The path_init() commit removes a redundant check that shouldn't have been there in the first place" * 'work.sane_pwd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: make sure that mntns_install() doesn't end up with referral for root path_init(): don't bother with checking MAY_EXEC for LOOKUP_ROOT make sure that fchdir() won't accept referral points, etc.
2017-05-10Merge branch 'overlayfs-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs Pull overlayfs update from Miklos Szeredi: "The biggest part of this is making st_dev/st_ino on the overlay behave like a normal filesystem (i.e. st_ino doesn't change on copy up, st_dev is the same for all files and directories). Currently this only works if all layers are on the same filesystem, but future work will move the general case towards more sane behavior. There are also miscellaneous fixes, including fixes to handling append-only files. There's a small change in the VFS, but that only has an effect on overlayfs, since otherwise file->f_path.dentry->inode and file_inode(file) are always the same" * 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: ovl: update documentation w.r.t. constant inode numbers ovl: persistent inode numbers for upper hardlinks ovl: merge getattr for dir and nondir ovl: constant st_ino/st_dev across copy up ovl: persistent inode number for directories ovl: set the ORIGIN type flag ovl: lookup non-dir copy-up-origin by file handle ovl: use an auxiliary var for overlay root entry ovl: store file handle of lower inode on copy up ovl: check if all layers are on the same fs ovl: do not set overlay.opaque on non-dir create ovl: check IS_APPEND() on real upper inode vfs: ftruncate check IS_APPEND() on real upper inode ovl: Use designated initializers ovl: lockdep annotate of nested stacked overlayfs inode lock
2017-05-09Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted bits and pieces from various people. No common topic in this pile, sorry" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs/affs: add rename exchange fs/affs: add rename2 to prepare multiple methods Make stat/lstat/fstatat pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to vfs_statx() fs: don't set *REFERENCED on single use objects fs: compat: Remove warning from COMPATIBLE_IOCTL remove pointless extern of atime_need_update_rcu() fs: completely ignore unknown open flags fs: add a VALID_OPEN_FLAGS fs: remove _submit_bh() fs: constify tree_descr arrays passed to simple_fill_super() fs: drop duplicate header percpu-rwsem.h fs/affs: bugfix: Write files greater than page size on OFS fs/affs: bugfix: enable writes on OFS disks fs/affs: remove node generation check fs/affs: import amigaffs.h fs/affs: bugfix: make symbolic links work again
2017-04-27fs: completely ignore unknown open flagsChristoph Hellwig1-0/+6
Currently we just stash anything we got into file->f_flags, and the report it in fcntl(F_GETFD). This patch just clears out all unknown flags so that we don't pass them to the fs or report them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>