Merge tag 'afs-fixes-20210913' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull AFS fixes from David Howells:
"Fixes for AFS problems that can cause data corruption due to
interaction with another client modifying data cached locally:
- When d_revalidating a dentry, don't look at the inode to which it
points. Only check the directory to which the dentry belongs. This
was confusing things and causing the silly-rename cleanup code to
remove the file now at the dentry of a file that got deleted.
- Fix mmap data coherency. When a callback break is received that
relates to a file that we have cached, the data content may have
been changed (there are other reasons, such as the user's rights
having been changed). However, we're checking it lazily, only on
entry to the kernel, which doesn't happen if we have a writeable
shared mapped page on that file.
We make the kernel keep track of mmapped files and clear all PTEs
mapping to that file as soon as the callback comes in by calling
unmap_mapping_pages() (we don't necessarily want to zap the
pagecache). This causes the kernel to be reentered when userspace
tries to access the mmapped address range again - and at that point
we can query the server and, if we need to, zap the page cache.
Ideally, I would check each file at the point of notification, but
that involves poking the server[*] - which is holding an exclusive
lock on the vnode it is changing, waiting for all the clients it
notified to reply. This could then deadlock against the server.
Further, invalidating the pagecache might call ->launder_page(),
which would try to write to the file, which would definitely
deadlock. (AFS doesn't lease file access).
[*] Checking to see if the file content has changed is a matter of
comparing the current data version number, but we have to ask
the server for that. We also need to get a new callback promise
and we need to poke the server for that too.
- Add some more points at which the inode is validated, since we're
doing it lazily, notably in ->read_iter() and ->page_mkwrite(), but
also when performing some directory operations.
Ideally, checking in ->read_iter() would be done in some derivation
of filemap_read(). If we're going to call the server to read the
file, then we get the file status fetch as part of that.
- The above is now causing us to make a lot more calls to
afs_validate() to check the inode - and afs_validate() takes the
RCU read lock each time to make a quick check (ie.
afs_check_validity()). This is entirely for the purpose of checking
cb_s_break to see if the server we're using reinitialised its list
of callbacks - however this isn't a very common event, so most of
the time we're taking this needlessly.
Add a new cell-wide counter to count the number of
reinitialisations done by any server and check that - and only if
that changes, take the RCU read lock and check the server list (the
server list may change, but the cell a file is part of won't).
- Don't update vnode->cb_s_break and ->cb_v_break inside the validity
checking loop. The cb_lock is done with read_seqretry, so we might
go round the loop a second time after resetting those values - and
that could cause someone else checking validity to miss something
(I think).
Also included are patches for fixes for some bugs encountered whilst
debugging this:
- Fix a leak of afs_read objects and fix a leak of keys hidden by
that.
- Fix a leak of pages that couldn't be added to extend a writeback.
- Fix the maintenance of i_blocks when i_size is changed by a local
write or a local dir edit"
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214217 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163111665183.283156.17200205573146438918.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163113612442.352844.11162345591911691150.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # i_blocks patch
* tag 'afs-fixes-20210913' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
afs: Fix updating of i_blocks on file/dir extension
afs: Fix corruption in reads at fpos 2G-4G from an OpenAFS server
afs: Try to avoid taking RCU read lock when checking vnode validity
afs: Fix mmap coherency vs 3rd-party changes
afs: Fix incorrect triggering of sillyrename on 3rd-party invalidation
afs: Add missing vnode validation checks
afs: Fix page leak
afs: Fix missing put on afs_read objects and missing get on the key therein
Showing
fs/afs/protocol_afs.h
0 → 100644
Please register or sign in to comment