Currently we ask jbd2 to write all dirty allocated buffers before
committing a transaction when doing writeback of delay allocated blocks.
However this is unnecessary since we move all pages to writeback state
before dropping a transaction handle and then submit all the necessary
IO. We still need the transaction commit to wait for all the outstanding
writeback before flushing disk caches during transaction commit to avoid
data exposure issues though. Use the new jbd2 capability and ask it to
only wait for outstanding writeback during transaction commit when
writing back data in ext4_writepages().
Tested-by: "HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN)" <Weller.Huang@cn.bosch.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently when filesystem needs to make sure data is on permanent
storage before committing a transaction it adds inode to transaction's
inode list. During transaction commit, jbd2 writes back all dirty
buffers that have allocated underlying blocks and waits for the IO to
finish. However when doing writeback for delayed allocated data, we
allocate blocks and immediately submit the data. Thus asking jbd2 to
write dirty pages just unnecessarily adds more work to jbd2 possibly
writing back other redirtied blocks.
Add support to jbd2 to allow filesystem to ask jbd2 to only wait for
outstanding data writes before committing a transaction and thus avoid
unnecessary writes.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
This flag is just duplicating what ext4_should_order_data() tells you
and is used in a single place. Furthermore it doesn't reflect changes to
inode data journalling flag so it may be possibly misleading. Just
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Huang has reported that in his powerfail testing he is seeing stale
block contents in some of recently allocated blocks although he mounts
ext4 in data=ordered mode. After some investigation I have found out
that indeed when delayed allocation is used, we don't add inode to
transaction's list of inodes needing flushing before commit. Originally
we were doing that but commit f3b59291a6 removed the logic with a
flawed argument that it is not needed.
The problem is that although for delayed allocated blocks we write their
contents immediately after allocating them, there is no guarantee that
the IO scheduler or device doesn't reorder things and thus transaction
allocating blocks and attaching them to inode can reach stable storage
before actual block contents. Actually whenever we attach freshly
allocated blocks to inode using a written extent, we should add inode to
transaction's ordered inode list to make sure we properly wait for block
contents to be written before committing the transaction. So that is
what we do in this patch. This also handles other cases where stale data
exposure was possible - like filling hole via mmap in
data=ordered,nodelalloc mode.
The only exception to the above rule are extending direct IO writes where
blkdev_direct_IO() waits for IO to complete before increasing i_size and
thus stale data exposure is not possible. For now we don't complicate
the code with optimizing this special case since the overhead is pretty
low. In case this is observed to be a performance problem we can always
handle it using a special flag to ext4_map_blocks().
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f3b59291a6
Reported-by: "HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN)" <Weller.Huang@cn.bosch.com>
Tested-by: "HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN)" <Weller.Huang@cn.bosch.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
If a directory has a large number of empty blocks, iterating over all
of them can take a long time, leading to scheduler warnings and users
getting irritated when they can't kill a process in the middle of one
of these long-running readdir operations. Fix this by adding checks to
ext4_readdir() and ext4_htree_fill_tree().
This was reverted earlier due to a typo in the original commit where I
experimented with using signal_pending() instead of
fatal_signal_pending(). The test was in the wrong place if we were
going to return signal_pending() since we would end up returning
duplicant entries. See 9f2394c9be for a more detailed explanation.
Added fix as suggested by Linus to check for signal_pending() in
in the filldir() functions.
Reported-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Google-Bug-Id: 27880676
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Conflicts were two cases of simple overlapping changes,
nothing serious.
In the UDP case, we need to add a hlist_add_tail_rcu()
to linux/rculist.h, because we've moved UDP socket handling
away from using nulls lists.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
when removing a xattr, generic_removexattr() calls __ceph_setxattr()
with NULL value and XATTR_REPLACE flag. __ceph_removexattr() is not
used any more.
Signed-off-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add a catch-all xattr handler at the end of ceph_xattr_handlers. Check
for valid attribute names there, and remove those checks from
__ceph_{get,set,remove}xattr instead. No "system.*" xattrs need to be
handled by the catch-all handler anymore.
The set xattr handler is called with a NULL value to indicate that the
attribute should be removed; __ceph_setxattr already handles that case
correctly (ceph_set_acl could already calling __ceph_setxattr with a NULL
value).
Move the check for snapshots from ceph_{set,remove}xattr into
__ceph_{set,remove}xattr. With that, ceph_{get,set,remove}xattr can be
replaced with the generic iops.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Create a variant of ceph_setattr that takes an inode instead of a
dentry. Change __ceph_setxattr (and also __ceph_removexattr) to take an
inode instead of a dentry. Use those in ceph_set_acl so that we no
longer need a dentry there.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Use xattr handlers for resolving attribute names. The amount of setup
code required on cifs is nontrivial, so use the same get and set
functions for all handlers, with switch statements for the different
types of attributes in them.
The set_EA handler can handle NULL values, so we don't need a separate
removexattr function anymore. Remove the cifs_dbg statements related to
xattr name resolution; they don't add much. Don't build xattr.o when
CONFIG_CIFS_XATTR is not defined.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If cifs_removexattr finds a "user." or "os2." xattr name prefix, it
skips 5 bytes, one byte too many for "os2.".
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The two values ACL_TYPE_ACCESS and ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT are meant to be
enumerations, not bits in a bit mask. Use '==' instead of '&' to check
for these values.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Use strcmp(str, name) instead of strncmp(str, name, strlen(name)) for
checking if str and name are the same (as opposed to name being a prefix
of str) in the gexattr and setxattr inode operations.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
You cannot allocate crypto tfm objects in NORECLAIM or NOFS contexts.
The ecryptfs code currently does exactly that for the MD5 tfm.
This patch fixes it by preallocating the MD5 tfm in a safe context.
The MD5 tfm is also reentrant so this patch removes the superfluous
cs_hash_tfm_mutex.
Reported-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch fixes two locations that do not call gfs2_holder_uninit
if gfs2_glock_nq returns an error.
Signed-off-by: Daniel DeFreez <dcdefreez@ucdavis.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Merge the ptmx internal interface cleanup branch.
This doesn't change semantics, but it should be a sane basis for
eventually getting the multi-instance devpts code into some sane shape
where we can get rid of the kernel config option. Which we can
hopefully get done next merge window..
* ptmx-cleanup:
devpts: clean up interface to pty drivers
This gets rid of the horrible notion of having that
struct inode *ptmx_inode
be the linchpin of the interface between the pty code and devpts.
By de-emphasizing the ptmx inode, a lot of things actually get cleaner,
and we will have a much saner way forward. In particular, this will
allow us to associate with any particular devpts instance at open-time,
and not be artificially tied to one particular ptmx inode.
The patch itself is actually fairly straightforward, and apart from some
locking and return path cleanups it's pretty mechanical:
- the interfaces that devpts exposes all take "struct pts_fs_info *"
instead of "struct inode *ptmx_inode" now.
NOTE! The "struct pts_fs_info" thing is a completely opaque structure
as far as the pty driver is concerned: it's still declared entirely
internally to devpts. So the pty code can't actually access it in any
way, just pass it as a "cookie" to the devpts code.
- the "look up the pts fs info" is now a single clear operation, that
also does the reference count increment on the pts superblock.
So "devpts_add/del_ref()" is gone, and replaced by a "lookup and get
ref" operation (devpts_get_ref(inode)), along with a "put ref" op
(devpts_put_ref()).
- the pty master "tty->driver_data" field now contains the pts_fs_info,
not the ptmx inode.
- because we don't care about the ptmx inode any more as some kind of
base index, the ref counting can now drop the inode games - it just
gets the ref on the superblock.
- the pts_fs_info now has a back-pointer to the super_block. That's so
that we can easily look up the information we actually need. Although
quite often, the pts fs info was actually all we wanted, and not having
to look it up based on some magical inode makes things more
straightforward.
In particular, now that "devpts_get_ref(inode)" operation should really
be the *only* place we need to look up what devpts instance we're
associated with, and we do it exactly once, at ptmx_open() time.
The other side of this is that one ptmx node could now be associated
with multiple different devpts instances - you could have a single
/dev/ptmx node, and then have multiple mount namespaces with their own
instances of devpts mounted on /dev/pts/. And that's all perfectly sane
in a model where we just look up the pts instance at open time.
This will eventually allow us to get rid of our odd single-vs-multiple
pts instance model, but this patch in itself changes no semantics, only
an internal binding model.
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fix spelling typos found in printk
within various part of the kernel sources.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This patch fix spelling typos found in DocBook/filesystem.xml.
It is because the file was generated from comments in code,
I have to fix the comments in codes, instead of xml file.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Pull misc fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are three small fixes for 4.6-rc4.
Two fix up some lz4 issues with big endian systems, and the remaining
one resolves a minor debugfs issue that was reported.
All have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-4.6-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
lib: lz4: cleanup unaligned access efficiency detection
lib: lz4: fixed zram with lz4 on big endian machines
debugfs: Make automount point inodes permanently empty
If somebody wrote some data before atomic writes, we should flush them in order
to handle atomic data in a right period.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch returns -E2BIG if there is no space to add an xattr entry.
This should fix generic/026 in xfstests as well.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch resolves the redundant condition check reported by David.
Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
The atomic/volatile operation should be done in pair of start and commit
ioctl.
For example, if a killed process remains open-ended atomic operation, we should
drop its flag as well as its atomic data. Otherwise, if sqlite initiates another
operation which doesn't require atomic writes, it will lose every data, since
f2fs still treats with them as atomic writes; nobody will trigger its commit.
Reported-by: Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
When one reader closes its file while the other writer is doing atomic writes,
f2fs_release_file drops atomic data resulting in an empty commit.
This patch fixes this wrong commit problem by checking openess of the file.
Process0 Process1
open file
start atomic write
write data
read data
close file
f2fs_release_file()
clear atomic data
commit atomic write
Reported-by: Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch adds BUG_ON instead of retrying loop.
In the case of node pages, we already got this inode page, but unlocked it.
By the fact that we don't truncate any node pages in operations, the page's
mapping should be unchangeable.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Previously, after trylock_page is succeeded, it doesn't check its mapping.
In order to fix that, we can just give PGP_LOCK to pagecache_get_page.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
With below serials, we will lose parts of dirents:
1) mount f2fs with inline_dentry option
2) echo 1 > /sys/fs/f2fs/sdX/dir_level
3) mkdir dir
4) touch 180 files named [1-180] in dir
5) touch 181 in dir
6) echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
7) ll dir
ls: cannot access 2: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 4: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 5: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 6: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 8: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 9: No such file or directory
...
total 360
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 19 15:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 19 15:11 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 19 15:12 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 19 15:12 10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 19 15:12 100
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? 101
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? 102
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? 103
...
The reason is: when doing the inline dir conversion, we didn't consider
that directory has hierarchical hash structure which can be configured
through sysfs interface 'dir_level'.
By default, dir_level of directory inode is 0, it means we have one bucket
in hash table located in first level, all dirents will be hashed in this
bucket, so it has no problem for us to do the duplication simply between
inline dentry page and converted normal dentry page.
However, if we configured dir_level with the value N (greater than 0), it
will expand the bucket number of first level hash table by 2^N - 1, it
hashs dirents into different buckets according their hash value, if we
still move all dirents to first bucket, it makes incorrent locating for
inline dirents, the result is, although we can iterate all dirents through
->readdir, we can't stat some of them in ->lookup which based on hash
table searching.
This patch fixes this issue by rehashing dirents into correct position
when converting inline directory.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch adds a sbi flag, SBI_NEED_SB_WRITE, which indicates it needs to
recover superblock when (re)mounting as RW. This is set only when f2fs is
mounted as RO.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
When one of superblocks is missing, f2fs recovers it with the valid one.
But, even if f2fs is mounted as RO, we'd better notify that too.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Pull f2fs/fscrypto fixes from Jaegeuk Kim:
"In addition to f2fs/fscrypto fixes, I've added one patch which
prevents RCU mode lookup in d_revalidate, as Al mentioned.
These patches fix f2fs and fscrypto based on -rc3 bug fixes in ext4
crypto, which have not yet been fully propagated as follows.
- use of dget_parent and file_dentry to avoid crashes
- disallow RCU-mode lookup in d_invalidate
- disallow -ENOMEM in the core data encryption path"
* tag 'for-linus-4.6-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs:
ext4/fscrypto: avoid RCU lookup in d_revalidate
fscrypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM
f2fs: use dget_parent and file_dentry in f2fs_file_open
fscrypto: use dget_parent() in fscrypt_d_revalidate()
A lot of seqfile users seem to be using things like %pK that uses the
credentials of the current process, but that is actually completely
wrong for filesystem interfaces.
The unix semantics for permission checking files is to check permissions
at _open_ time, not at read or write time, and that is not just a small
detail: passing off stdin/stdout/stderr to a suid application and making
the actual IO happen in privileged context is a classic exploit
technique.
So if we want to be able to look at permissions at read time, we need to
use the file open credentials, not the current ones. Normal file
accesses can just use "f_cred" (or any of the helper functions that do
that, like file_ns_capable()), but the seqfile interfaces do not have
any such options.
It turns out that seq_file _does_ save away the user_ns information of
the file, though. Since user_ns is just part of the full credential
information, replace that special case with saving off the cred pointer
instead, and suddenly seq_file has all the permission information it
needs.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Function gfs2_inode_lookup was dereferencing the inode, and after,
it checks for the value being NULL. We need to check that first.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Starting with 4.1 the tracing subsystem has its own filesystem
which is automounted in the tracing subdirectory of debugfs.
Prior to this debugfs could be bind mounted in a cloned mount
namespace, but if tracefs has been mounted under debugfs this
now fails because there is a locked child mount. This creates
a regression for container software which bind mounts debugfs
to satisfy the assumption of some userspace software.
In other pseudo filesystems such as proc and sysfs we're already
creating mountpoints like this in such a way that no dirents can
be created in the directories, allowing them to be exceptions to
some MNT_LOCKED tests. In fact we're already do this for the
tracefs mountpoint in sysfs.
Do the same in debugfs_create_automount(), since the intention
here is clearly to create a mountpoint. This fixes the regression,
as locked child mounts on permanently empty directories do not
cause a bind mount to fail.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The struct file_operations u32_array_fops associated with files created
through debugfs_create_u32_array() has been lifetime aware already:
everything needed for subsequent operation is copied to a ->f_private
buffer at file opening time in u32_array_open(). Now, ->open() is always
protected against file removal issues by the debugfs core.
There is no need for the debugfs core to wrap the u32_array_fops
with a file lifetime managing proxy.
Make debugfs_create_u32_array() create its files in non-proxying operation
mode by means of debugfs_create_file_unsafe().
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Currently, the struct file_operations fops_blob associated with files
created through the debugfs_create_blob() helpers are not file
lifetime aware.
Thus, a lifetime managing proxy is created around fops_blob each time such
a file is opened which is an unnecessary waste of resources.
Implement file lifetime management for the fops_bool file_operations.
Namely, make read_file_blob() safe gainst file removals by means of
debugfs_use_file_start() and debugfs_use_file_finish().
Make debugfs_create_blob() create its files in non-proxying operation mode
by means of debugfs_create_file_unsafe().
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Currently, the struct file_operations fops_bool associated with files
created through the debugfs_create_bool() helpers are not file
lifetime aware.
Thus, a lifetime managing proxy is created around fops_bool each time such
a file is opened which is an unnecessary waste of resources.
Implement file lifetime management for the fops_bool file_operations.
Namely, make debugfs_read_file_bool() and debugfs_write_file_bool() safe
against file removals by means of debugfs_use_file_start() and
debugfs_use_file_finish().
Make debugfs_create_bool() create its files in non-proxying operation mode
through debugfs_create_mode_unsafe().
Finally, purge debugfs_create_mode() as debugfs_create_bool() had been its
last user.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Currently, the struct file_operations associated with the integer attribute
style files created through the debugfs_create_*() helpers are not file
lifetime aware as they are defined by means of DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE().
Thus, a lifetime managing proxy is created around the original fops each
time such a file is opened which is an unnecessary waste of resources.
Migrate all usages of DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE() within debugfs itself
to DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE() in order to implement file lifetime managing
within the struct file_operations thus defined.
Introduce the debugfs_create_mode_unsafe() helper, analogous to
debugfs_create_mode(), but distinct in that it creates the files in
non-proxying operation mode through debugfs_create_file_unsafe().
Feed all struct file_operations migrated to DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE()
into debugfs_create_mode_unsafe() instead of former debugfs_create_mode().
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In order to protect them against file removal issues, debugfs_create_file()
creates a lifetime managing proxy around each struct file_operations
handed in.
In cases where this struct file_operations is able to manage file lifetime
by itself already, the proxy created by debugfs is a waste of resources.
The most common class of struct file_operations given to debugfs are those
defined by means of the DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE() macro.
Introduce a DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE() macro to allow any
struct file_operations of this class to be easily made file lifetime aware
and thus, to be operated unproxied.
Specifically, introduce debugfs_attr_read() and debugfs_attr_write()
which wrap simple_attr_read() and simple_attr_write() under the protection
of a debugfs_use_file_start()/debugfs_use_file_finish() pair.
Make DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE() set the defined struct file_operations'
->read() and ->write() members to these wrappers.
Export debugfs_create_file_unsafe() in order to allow debugfs users to
create their files in non-proxying operation mode.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Upon return of debugfs_remove()/debugfs_remove_recursive(), it might
still be attempted to access associated private file data through
previously opened struct file objects. If that data has been freed by
the caller of debugfs_remove*() in the meanwhile, the reading/writing
process would either encounter a fault or, if the memory address in
question has been reassigned again, unrelated data structures could get
overwritten.
However, since debugfs files are seldomly removed, usually from module
exit handlers only, the impact is very low.
Currently, there are ~1000 call sites of debugfs_create_file() spread
throughout the whole tree and touching all of those struct file_operations
in order to make them file removal aware by means of checking the result of
debugfs_use_file_start() from within their methods is unfeasible.
Instead, wrap the struct file_operations by a lifetime managing proxy at
file open:
- In debugfs_create_file(), the original fops handed in has got stashed
away in ->d_fsdata already.
- In debugfs_create_file(), install a proxy file_operations factory,
debugfs_full_proxy_file_operations, at ->i_fop.
This proxy factory has got an ->open() method only. It carries out some
lifetime checks and if successful, dynamically allocates and sets up a new
struct file_operations proxy at ->f_op. Afterwards, it forwards to the
->open() of the original struct file_operations in ->d_fsdata, if any.
The dynamically set up proxy at ->f_op has got a lifetime managing wrapper
set for each of the methods defined in the original struct file_operations
in ->d_fsdata.
Its ->release()er frees the proxy again and forwards to the original
->release(), if any.
In order not to mislead the VFS layer, it is strictly necessary to leave
those fields blank in the proxy that have been NULL in the original
struct file_operations also, i.e. aren't supported. This is why there is a
need for dynamically allocated proxies. The choice made not to allocate a
proxy instance for every dentry at file creation, but for every
struct file object instantiated thereof is justified by the expected usage
pattern of debugfs, namely that in general very few files get opened more
than once at a time.
The wrapper methods set in the struct file_operations implement lifetime
managing by means of the SRCU protection facilities already in place for
debugfs:
They set up a SRCU read side critical section and check whether the dentry
is still alive by means of debugfs_use_file_start(). If so, they forward
the call to the original struct file_operation stored in ->d_fsdata, still
under the protection of the SRCU read side critical section.
This SRCU read side critical section prevents any pending debugfs_remove()
and friends to return to their callers. Since a file's private data must
only be freed after the return of debugfs_remove(), the ongoing proxied
call is guarded against any file removal race.
If, on the other hand, the initial call to debugfs_use_file_start() detects
that the dentry is dead, the wrapper simply returns -EIO and does not
forward the call. Note that the ->poll() wrapper is special in that its
signature does not allow for the return of arbitrary -EXXX values and thus,
POLLHUP is returned here.
In order not to pollute debugfs with wrapper definitions that aren't ever
needed, I chose not to define a wrapper for every struct file_operations
method possible. Instead, a wrapper is defined only for the subset of
methods which are actually set by any debugfs users.
Currently, these are:
->llseek()
->read()
->write()
->unlocked_ioctl()
->poll()
The ->release() wrapper is special in that it does not protect the original
->release() in any way from dead files in order not to leak resources.
Thus, any ->release() handed to debugfs must implement file lifetime
management manually, if needed.
For only 33 out of a total of 434 releasers handed in to debugfs, it could
not be verified immediately whether they access data structures that might
have been freed upon a debugfs_remove() return in the meanwhile.
Export debugfs_use_file_start() and debugfs_use_file_finish() in order to
allow any ->release() to manually implement file lifetime management.
For a set of common cases of struct file_operations implemented by the
debugfs_core itself, future patches will incorporate file lifetime
management directly within those in order to allow for their unproxied
operation. Rename the original, non-proxying "debugfs_create_file()" to
"debugfs_create_file_unsafe()" and keep it for future internal use by
debugfs itself. Factor out code common to both into the new
__debugfs_create_file().
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Nothing prevents a dentry found by path lookup before a return of
__debugfs_remove() to actually get opened after that return. Now, after
the return of __debugfs_remove(), there are no guarantees whatsoever
regarding the memory the corresponding inode's file_operations object
had been kept in.
Since __debugfs_remove() is seldomly invoked, usually from module exit
handlers only, the race is hard to trigger and the impact is very low.
A discussion of the problem outlined above as well as a suggested
solution can be found in the (sub-)thread rooted at
http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20130401203445.GA20862@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
("Yet another pipe related oops.")
Basically, Greg KH suggests to introduce an intermediate fops and
Al Viro points out that a pointer to the original ones may be stored in
->d_fsdata.
Follow this line of reasoning:
- Add SRCU as a reverse dependency of DEBUG_FS.
- Introduce a srcu_struct object for the debugfs subsystem.
- In debugfs_create_file(), store a pointer to the original
file_operations object in ->d_fsdata.
- Make debugfs_remove() and debugfs_remove_recursive() wait for a
SRCU grace period after the dentry has been delete()'d and before they
return to their callers.
- Introduce an intermediate file_operations object named
"debugfs_open_proxy_file_operations". It's ->open() functions checks,
under the protection of a SRCU read lock, whether the dentry is still
alive, i.e. has not been d_delete()'d and if so, tries to acquire a
reference on the owning module.
On success, it sets the file object's ->f_op to the original
file_operations and forwards the ongoing open() call to the original
->open().
- For clarity, rename the former debugfs_file_operations to
debugfs_noop_file_operations -- they are in no way canonical.
The choice of SRCU over "normal" RCU is justified by the fact, that the
former may also be used to protect ->i_private data from going away
during the execution of a file's readers and writers which may (and do)
sleep.
Finally, introduce the fs/debugfs/internal.h header containing some
declarations internal to the debugfs implementation.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes the issue introduced by the ext4 crypto fix in a same manner.
For F2FS, however, we flush the pending IOs and wait for a while to acquire free
memory.
Fixes: c9af28fdd4 ("ext4 crypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
