...which just returns -EBUSY if a directory alias would be created.
This is to be used by fuse mkdir to make sure that a buggy or malicious
userspace filesystem doesn't do anything nasty. Previously fuse used a
private mutex for this purpose, which can now go away.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
This allows udev (or more recently systemd-tmpfiles) to create /dev/cuse on
boot, in the same way as /dev/fuse is currently created, and the corresponding
module to be loaded on first access.
The corresponding functionalty was introduced for fuse in commit 578454f.
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
If ->writepage() tries to write back a page whose copy is still in flight,
then just skip by calling redirty_page_for_writepage().
This is OK, since now ->writepage() should never be called for data
integrity sync.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
As Maxim Patlasov pointed out, it's possible to get a dirty page while it's
copy is still under writeback, despite fuse_page_mkwrite() doing its thing
(direct IO).
This could result in two concurrent write request for the same offset, with
data corruption if they get mixed up.
To prevent this, fuse needs to check and delay such writes. This
implementation does this by:
1. check if page is still under writeout, if so create a new, single page
secondary request for it
2. chain this secondary request onto the in-flight request
2/a. if a seconday request for the same offset was already chained to the
in-flight request, then just copy the contents of the page and discard
the new secondary request. This makes sure that for each page will
have at most two requests associated with it
3. when the in-flight request finished, send off all secondary requests
chained onto it
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Checking against tmp-page indexes is not very useful, and results in one
(or rarely two) page requests. Which is not much of an improvement...
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch fixes a race between ftruncate(2), mmap-ed write and write(2):
1) An user makes a page dirty via mmap-ed write.
2) The user performs shrinking truncate(2) intended to purge the page.
3) Before fuse_do_setattr calls truncate_pagecache, the page goes to
writeback. fuse_writepages_fill attaches a new page to FUSE_WRITE request,
then releases the original page by end_page_writeback and unlock it.
4) fuse_do_setattr completes and successfully returns. Since now, i_mutex
is free.
5) Ordinary write(2) extends i_size back to cover the page. Note that
fuse_send_write_pages do wait for fuse writeback, but for another
page->index.
6) fuse_writepages_fill attaches more pages to the request (if any), then
fuse_writepages_send is eventually called. It is supposed to crop
inarg->size of the request, but it doesn't because i_size has already been
extended back.
Moving end_page_writeback behind fuse_writepages_send guarantees that
__fuse_release_nowrite (called from fuse_do_setattr) will crop inarg->size
of the request before write(2) gets the chance to extend i_size.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The .writepages one is required to make each writeback request carry more than
one page on it. The patch enables optimized behaviour unconditionally,
i.e. mmap-ed writes will benefit from the patch even if fc->writeback_cache=0.
[SzM: simplify, add comments]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Don't bug if there's no writable files found for page writeback. If ever
this is triggered, a WARN_ON helps debugging it much better then a BUG_ON.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Lock the page in fuse_page_mkwrite() to protect against a race with
fuse_writepage() where the page is redirtied before the actual writeback
begins.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The .writepages callback will issue writeback requests with more than one
page aboard. Make existing end/check code be aware of this.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
There will be a .writepageS callback implementation which will need to
get a fuse_file out of a fuse_inode, thus make a helper for this.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Doing dput(parent) is not valid in RCU walk mode. In RCU mode it would
probably be okay to update the parent flags, but it's actually not
necessary most of the time...
So only set the FUSE_I_ADVISE_RDPLUS flag on the parent when the entry was
recently initialized by READDIRPLUS.
This is achieved by setting FUSE_I_INIT_RDPLUS on entries added by
READDIRPLUS and only dropping out of RCU mode if this flag is set.
FUSE_I_INIT_RDPLUS is cleared once the FUSE_I_ADVISE_RDPLUS flag is set in
the parent.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
If revalidate finds an invalid dentry in RCU walk mode, let the VFS deal
with it instead of calling check_submounts_and_drop() which is not prepared
for being called from RCU walk.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
A former patch introducing FUSE_I_SIZE_UNSTABLE flag provided detailed
description of races between ftruncate and anyone who can extend i_size:
> 1. As in the previous scenario fuse_dentry_revalidate() discovered that i_size
> changed (due to our own fuse_do_setattr()) and is going to call
> truncate_pagecache() for some 'new_size' it believes valid right now. But by
> the time that particular truncate_pagecache() is called ...
> 2. fuse_do_setattr() returns (either having called truncate_pagecache() or
> not -- it doesn't matter).
> 3. The file is extended either by write(2) or ftruncate(2) or fallocate(2).
> 4. mmap-ed write makes a page in the extended region dirty.
This patch adds necessary bits to fuse_file_fallocate() to protect from that
race.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The patch fixes a race between mmap-ed write and fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE):
1) An user makes a page dirty via mmap-ed write.
2) The user performs fallocate(2) with mode == PUNCH_HOLE|KEEP_SIZE
and <offset, size> covering the page.
3) Before truncate_pagecache_range call from fuse_file_fallocate,
the page goes to write-back. The page is fully processed by fuse_writepage
(including end_page_writeback on the page), but fuse_flush_writepages did
nothing because fi->writectr < 0.
4) truncate_pagecache_range is called and fuse_file_fallocate is finishing
by calling fuse_release_nowrite. The latter triggers processing queued
write-back request which will write stale data to the hole soon.
Changed in v2 (thanks to Brian for suggestion):
- Do not truncate page cache until FUSE_FALLOCATE succeeded. Otherwise,
we can end up in returning -ENOTSUPP while user data is already punched
from page cache. Use filemap_write_and_wait_range() instead.
Changed in v3 (thanks to Miklos for suggestion):
- fuse_wait_on_writeback() is prone to livelocks; use fuse_set_nowrite()
instead. So far as we need a dirty-page barrier only, fuse_sync_writes()
should be enough.
- rebased to for-linus branch of fuse.git
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression"). Let's drop it.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The feature prevents mistrusted filesystems (ie: FUSE mounts created by
unprivileged users) to grow a large number of dirty pages before
throttling. For such filesystems balance_dirty_pages always check bdi
counters against bdi limits. I.e. even if global "nr_dirty" is under
"freerun", it's not allowed to skip bdi checks. The only use case for now
is fuse: it sets bdi max_ratio to 1% by default and system administrators
are supposed to expect that this limit won't be exceeded.
The feature is on if a BDI is marked by BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT flag. A
filesystem may set the flag when it initializes its BDI.
The problematic scenario comes from the fact that nobody pays attention to
the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter (i.e. number of pages under fuse
writeback). The implementation of fuse writeback releases original page
(by calling end_page_writeback) almost immediately. A fuse request queued
for real processing bears a copy of original page. Hence, if userspace
fuse daemon doesn't finalize write requests in timely manner, an
aggressive mmap writer can pollute virtually all memory by those temporary
fuse page copies. They are carefully accounted in NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP, but
nobody cares.
To make further explanations shorter, let me use "NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP
problem" as a shortcut for "a possibility of uncontrolled grow of amount
of RAM consumed by temporary pages allocated by kernel fuse to process
writeback".
The problem was very easy to reproduce. There is a trivial example
filesystem implementation in fuse userspace distribution: fusexmp_fh.c. I
added "sleep(1);" to the write methods, then recompiled and mounted it.
Then created a huge file on the mount point and run a simple program which
mmap-ed the file to a memory region, then wrote a data to the region. An
hour later I observed almost all RAM consumed by fuse writeback. Since
then some unrelated changes in kernel fuse made it more difficult to
reproduce, but it is still possible now.
Putting this theoretical happens-in-the-lab thing aside, there is another
thing that really hurts real world (FUSE) users. This is write-through
page cache policy FUSE currently uses. I.e. handling write(2), kernel
fuse populates page cache and flushes user data to the server
synchronously. This is excessively suboptimal. Pavel Emelyanov's patches
("writeback cache policy") solve the problem, but they also make resolving
NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP problem absolutely necessary. Otherwise, simply copying
a huge file to a fuse mount would result in memory starvation. Miklos,
the maintainer of FUSE, believes strictlimit feature the way to go.
And eventually putting FUSE topics aside, there is one more use-case for
strictlimit feature. Using a slow USB stick (mass storage) in a machine
with huge amount of RAM installed is a well-known pain. Let's make simple
computations. Assuming 64GB of RAM installed, existing implementation of
balance_dirty_pages will start throttling only after 9.6GB of RAM becomes
dirty (freerun == 15% of total RAM). So, the command "cp 9GB_file
/media/my-usb-storage/" may return in a few seconds, but subsequent
"umount /media/my-usb-storage/" will take more than two hours if effective
throughput of the storage is, to say, 1MB/sec.
After inclusion of strictlimit feature, it will be trivial to add a knob
(e.g. /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/x:y/strictlimit) to enable it on demand.
Manually or via udev rule. May be I'm wrong, but it seems to be quite a
natural desire to limit the amount of dirty memory for some devices we are
not fully trust (in the sense of sustainable throughput).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning in page-writeback.c]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull fuse bugfixes from Miklos Szeredi:
"Just a bunch of bugfixes"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: use list_for_each_entry() for list traversing
fuse: readdir: check for slash in names
fuse: hotfix truncate_pagecache() issue
fuse: invalidate inode attributes on xattr modification
fuse: postpone end_page_writeback() in fuse_writepage_locked()
Drop a subtree when we find that it has moved or been delated. This can be
done as long as there are no submounts under this location.
If the directory was moved and we come across the same directory in a
future lookup it will be reconnected by d_materialise_unique().
Signed-off-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
On errors unrelated to the filesystem's state (ENOMEM, ENOTCONN) return the
error itself from ->d_revalidate() insted of returning zero (invalid).
Also make a common label for invalidating the dentry. This will be used by
the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Use d_materialise_unique() instead of d_splice_alias(). This allows dentry
subtrees to be moved to a new place if there moved, even if something is
referencing a dentry in the subtree (open fd, cwd, etc..).
This will also allow us to drop a subtree if it is found to be replaced by
something else. In this case the disconnected subtree can later be
reconnected to its new location.
d_materialise_unique() ensures that a directory entry only ever has one
alias. We keep fc->inst_mutex around the calls for d_materialise_unique()
on directories to prevent a race with mkdir "stealing" the inode.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Userspace can add names containing a slash character to the directory
listing. Don't allow this as it could cause all sorts of trouble.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The way how fuse calls truncate_pagecache() from fuse_change_attributes()
is completely wrong. Because, w/o i_mutex held, we never sure whether
'oldsize' and 'attr->size' are valid by the time of execution of
truncate_pagecache(inode, oldsize, attr->size). In fact, as soon as we
released fc->lock in the middle of fuse_change_attributes(), we completely
loose control of actions which may happen with given inode until we reach
truncate_pagecache. The list of potentially dangerous actions includes
mmap-ed reads and writes, ftruncate(2) and write(2) extending file size.
The typical outcome of doing truncate_pagecache() with outdated arguments
is data corruption from user point of view. This is (in some sense)
acceptable in cases when the issue is triggered by a change of the file on
the server (i.e. externally wrt fuse operation), but it is absolutely
intolerable in scenarios when a single fuse client modifies a file without
any external intervention. A real life case I discovered by fsx-linux
looked like this:
1. Shrinking ftruncate(2) comes to fuse_do_setattr(). The latter sends
FUSE_SETATTR to the server synchronously, but before getting fc->lock ...
2. fuse_dentry_revalidate() is asynchronously called. It sends FUSE_LOOKUP
to the server synchronously, then calls fuse_change_attributes(). The
latter updates i_size, releases fc->lock, but before comparing oldsize vs
attr->size..
3. fuse_do_setattr() from the first step proceeds by acquiring fc->lock and
updating attributes and i_size, but now oldsize is equal to
outarg.attr.size because i_size has just been updated (step 2). Hence,
fuse_do_setattr() returns w/o calling truncate_pagecache().
4. As soon as ftruncate(2) completes, the user extends file size by
write(2) making a hole in the middle of file, then reads data from the hole
either by read(2) or mmap-ed read. The user expects to get zero data from
the hole, but gets stale data because truncate_pagecache() is not executed
yet.
The scenario above illustrates one side of the problem: not truncating the
page cache even though we should. Another side corresponds to truncating
page cache too late, when the state of inode changed significantly.
Theoretically, the following is possible:
1. As in the previous scenario fuse_dentry_revalidate() discovered that
i_size changed (due to our own fuse_do_setattr()) and is going to call
truncate_pagecache() for some 'new_size' it believes valid right now. But
by the time that particular truncate_pagecache() is called ...
2. fuse_do_setattr() returns (either having called truncate_pagecache() or
not -- it doesn't matter).
3. The file is extended either by write(2) or ftruncate(2) or fallocate(2).
4. mmap-ed write makes a page in the extended region dirty.
The result will be the lost of data user wrote on the fourth step.
The patch is a hotfix resolving the issue in a simplistic way: let's skip
dangerous i_size update and truncate_pagecache if an operation changing
file size is in progress. This simplistic approach looks correct for the
cases w/o external changes. And to handle them properly, more sophisticated
and intrusive techniques (e.g. NFS-like one) would be required. I'd like to
postpone it until the issue is well discussed on the mailing list(s).
Changed in v2:
- improved patch description to cover both sides of the issue.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Calls like setxattr and removexattr result in updation of ctime.
Therefore invalidate inode attributes to force a refresh.
Signed-off-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The patch fixes a race between ftruncate(2), mmap-ed write and write(2):
1) An user makes a page dirty via mmap-ed write.
2) The user performs shrinking truncate(2) intended to purge the page.
3) Before fuse_do_setattr calls truncate_pagecache, the page goes to
writeback. fuse_writepage_locked fills FUSE_WRITE request and releases
the original page by end_page_writeback.
4) fuse_do_setattr() completes and successfully returns. Since now, i_mutex
is free.
5) Ordinary write(2) extends i_size back to cover the page. Note that
fuse_send_write_pages do wait for fuse writeback, but for another
page->index.
6) fuse_writepage_locked proceeds by queueing FUSE_WRITE request.
fuse_send_writepage is supposed to crop inarg->size of the request,
but it doesn't because i_size has already been extended back.
Moving end_page_writeback to the end of fuse_writepage_locked fixes the
race because now the fact that truncate_pagecache is successfully returned
infers that fuse_writepage_locked has already called end_page_writeback.
And this, in turn, infers that fuse_flush_writepages has already called
fuse_send_writepage, and the latter used valid (shrunk) i_size. write(2)
could not extend it because of i_mutex held by ftruncate(2).
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The dev_attrs field of struct class is going away soon, dev_groups
should be used instead. This converts the cuse class code to use the
correct field.
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fuse does instantiation slightly differently from NFS/CIFS which use
d_materialise_unique().
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Add sanity checks before adding or updating an entry with data received
from readdirplus.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
In case d_lookup() returns a dentry with d_inode == NULL, the dentry is not
returned with dput(). This results in triggering a BUG() in
shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree():
BUG: Dentry ...{i=0,n=...} still in use (1) [unmount of fuse fuse]
[SzM: need to d_drop() as well]
Reported-by: Justin Clift <jclift@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
The global variable num_physpages is scheduled to be removed, so use
totalram_pages instead of num_physpages at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull second set of VFS changes from Al Viro:
"Assorted f_pos race fixes, making do_splice_direct() safe to call with
i_mutex on parent, O_TMPFILE support, Jeff's locks.c series,
->d_hash/->d_compare calling conventions changes from Linus, misc
stuff all over the place."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
Document ->tmpfile()
ext4: ->tmpfile() support
vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it
block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
cpqphp_sysfs: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
tile-srom: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
proc_powerpc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
pci/proc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
isapnp: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
lpfc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock
locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable
locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
locks: avoid taking global lock if possible when waking up blocked waiters
locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
locks: encapsulate the fl_link list handling
locks: make "added" in __posix_lock_file a bool
...
Pull VFS patches (part 1) from Al Viro:
"The major change in this pile is ->readdir() replacement with
->iterate(), dealing with ->f_pos races in ->readdir() instances for
good.
There's a lot more, but I'd prefer to split the pull request into
several stages and this is the first obvious cutoff point."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (67 commits)
[readdir] constify ->actor
[readdir] ->readdir() is gone
[readdir] convert ecryptfs
[readdir] convert coda
[readdir] convert ocfs2
[readdir] convert fatfs
[readdir] convert xfs
[readdir] convert btrfs
[readdir] convert hostfs
[readdir] convert afs
[readdir] convert ncpfs
[readdir] convert hfsplus
[readdir] convert hfs
[readdir] convert befs
[readdir] convert cifs
[readdir] convert freevxfs
[readdir] convert fuse
[readdir] convert hpfs
reiserfs: switch reiserfs_readdir_dentry to inode
reiserfs: is_privroot_deh() needs only directory inode, actually
...
Changing size of a file on server and local update (fuse_write_update_size)
should be always protected by inode->i_mutex. Otherwise a race like this is
possible:
1. Process 'A' calls fallocate(2) to extend file (~FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE).
fuse_file_fallocate() sends FUSE_FALLOCATE request to the server.
2. Process 'B' calls ftruncate(2) shrinking the file. fuse_do_setattr()
sends shrinking FUSE_SETATTR request to the server and updates local i_size
by i_size_write(inode, outarg.attr.size).
3. Process 'A' resumes execution of fuse_file_fallocate() and calls
fuse_write_update_size(inode, offset + length). But 'offset + length' was
obsoleted by ftruncate from previous step.
Changed in v2 (thanks Brian and Anand for suggestions):
- made relation between mutex_lock() and fuse_set_nowrite(inode) more
explicit and clear.
- updated patch description to use ftruncate(2) in example
Signed-off-by: Maxim V. Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The bug was introduced with async_dio feature: trying to optimize short reads,
we cut number-of-bytes-to-read to i_size boundary. Hence the following example:
truncate --size=300 /mnt/file
dd if=/mnt/file of=/dev/null iflag=direct
led to FUSE_READ request of 300 bytes size. This turned out to be problem
for userspace fuse implementations who rely on assumption that kernel fuse
does not change alignment of request from client FS.
The patch turns off the optimization if async_dio is disabled. And, if it's
enabled, the patch fixes adjustment of number-of-bytes-to-read to preserve
alignment.
Note, that we cannot throw out short read optimization entirely because
otherwise a direct read of a huge size issued on a tiny file would generate
a huge amount of fuse requests and most of them would be ACKed by userspace
with zero bytes read.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
If request submission fails for an async request (i.e.,
get_user_pages() returns -ERESTARTSYS), we currently skip the
-EIOCBQUEUED return and drop into wait_for_sync_kiocb() forever.
Avoid this by always returning -EIOCBQUEUED for async requests. If
an error occurs, the error is passed into fuse_aio_complete(),
returned via aio_complete() and thus propagated to userspace via
io_getevents().
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Fix bug introduced by commit 4582a4ab2a "FUSE: Adapt readdirplus to application
usage patterns".
We need to check for a positive dentry; negative dentries are not added by
readdirplus. Secondly we need to advise the use of readdirplus on the *parent*,
otherwise the whole thing is useless. Thirdly all this is only relevant if
"readdirplus_auto" mode is selected by the filesystem.
We advise the use of readdirplus only if the dentry was still valid. If we had
to redo the lookup then there was no use in doing the -plus version.
Reported-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Feng Shuo <steve.shuo.feng@gmail.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
An fallocate request without FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set can extend the
size of a file. Update the inode size after a successful fallocate.
Also invalidate the inode attributes after a successful fallocate
to ensure we pick up the latest attribute values (i.e., i_blocks).
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
fuse supports hole punch via the fallocate() FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
interface. When a hole punch is passed through, the page cache
is not cleared and thus allows reading stale data from the cache.
This is easily demonstrable (using FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE) by reading a
smallish random data file into cache, punching a hole and creating
a copy of the file. Drop caches or remount and observe that the
original file no longer matches the file copied after the hole
punch. The original file contains a zeroed range and the latter
file contains stale data.
Protect against writepage requests in progress and punch out the
associated page cache range after a successful client fs hole
punch.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Commit 8b41e671 introduced explicit background checking for fuse_req
structures with BUG_ON() checks for the appropriate type of request in
in the associated send functions. Commit bcba24cc introduced the ability
to send dio requests as background requests but does not update the
request allocation based on the type of I/O request. As a result, a
BUG_ON() triggers in the fuse_request_send_background() background path if
an async I/O is sent.
Allocate a request based on the async state of the fuse_io_priv to avoid
the BUG.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton:
- Various fixes which were stalled or which I picked up recently
- A large rotorooting of the AIO code. Allegedly to improve
performance but I don't really have good performance numbers (I might
have lost the email) and I can't raise Kent today. I held this out
of 3.9 and we could give it another cycle if it's all too late/scary.
I ended up taking only the first two thirds of the AIO rotorooting. I
left the percpu parts and the batch completion for later. - Linus
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (33 commits)
aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h
aio: kill ki_retry
aio: kill ki_key
aio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines
aio: kill struct aio_ring_info
aio: kill batch allocation
aio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions
aio: use cancellation list lazily
aio: use flush_dcache_page()
aio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers
wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout()
aio: refcounting cleanup
aio: make aio_put_req() lockless
aio: do fget() after aio_get_req()
aio: dprintk() -> pr_debug()
aio: move private stuff out of aio.h
aio: add kiocb_cancel()
aio: kill return value of aio_complete()
char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}
aio: remove retry-based AIO
...
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:
"This contains two patchsets from Maxim Patlasov.
The first reworks the request throttling so that only async requests
are throttled. Wakeup of waiting async requests is also optimized.
The second series adds support for async processing of direct IO which
optimizes direct IO and enables the use of the AIO userspace
interface."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: add flag to turn on async direct IO
fuse: truncate file if async dio failed
fuse: optimize short direct reads
fuse: enable asynchronous processing direct IO
fuse: make fuse_direct_io() aware about AIO
fuse: add support of async IO
fuse: move fuse_release_user_pages() up
fuse: optimize wake_up
fuse: implement exclusive wakeup for blocked_waitq
fuse: skip blocking on allocations of synchronous requests
fuse: add flag fc->initialized
fuse: make request allocations for background processing explicit
Without async DIO write requests to a single file were always serialized.
With async DIO that's no longer the case.
So don't turn on async DIO by default for fear of breaking backward
compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch improves error handling in fuse_direct_IO(): if we successfully
submitted several fuse requests on behalf of synchronous direct write
extending file and some of them failed, let's try to do our best to clean-up.
Changed in v2: reuse fuse_do_setattr(). Thanks to Brian for suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
If user requested direct read beyond EOF, we can skip sending fuse requests
for positions beyond EOF because userspace would ACK them with zero bytes read
anyway. We can trust to i_size in fuse_direct_IO for such cases because it's
called from fuse_file_aio_read() and the latter updates fuse attributes
including i_size.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
In case of synchronous DIO request (i.e. read(2) or write(2) for a file
opened with O_DIRECT), the patch submits fuse requests asynchronously, but
waits for their completions before return from fuse_direct_IO().
In case of asynchronous DIO request (i.e. libaio io_submit() or a file opened
with O_DIRECT), the patch submits fuse requests asynchronously and return
-EIOCBQUEUED immediately.
The only special case is async DIO extending file. Here the patch falls back
to old behaviour because we can't return -EIOCBQUEUED and update i_size later,
without i_mutex hold. And we have no method to wait on real async I/O
requests.
The patch also clean __fuse_direct_write() up: it's better to update i_size
in its callers. Thanks Brian for suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch implements passing "struct fuse_io_priv *io" down the stack up to
fuse_send_read/write where it is used to submit request asynchronously.
io->async==0 designates synchronous processing.
Non-trivial part of the patch is changes in fuse_direct_io(): resources
like fuse requests and user pages cannot be released immediately in async
case.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch implements a framework to process an IO request asynchronously. The
idea is to associate several fuse requests with a single kiocb by means of
fuse_io_priv structure. The structure plays the same role for FUSE as 'struct
dio' for direct-io.c.
The framework is supposed to be used like this:
- someone (who wants to process an IO asynchronously) allocates fuse_io_priv
and initializes it setting 'async' field to non-zero value.
- as soon as fuse request is filled, it can be submitted (in non-blocking way)
by fuse_async_req_send()
- when all submitted requests are ACKed by userspace, io->reqs drops to zero
triggering aio_complete()
In case of IO initiated by libaio, aio_complete() will finish processing the
same way as in case of dio_complete() calling aio_complete(). But the
framework may be also used for internal FUSE use when initial IO request
was synchronous (from user perspective), but it's beneficial to process it
asynchronously. Then the caller should wait on kiocb explicitly and
aio_complete() will wake the caller up.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
fuse_release_user_pages() will be indirectly used by fuse_send_read/write
in future patches.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch solves thundering herd problem. So far as previous patches ensured
that only allocations for background may block, it's safe to wake up one
waiter. Whoever it is, it will wake up another one in request_end() afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
A task may have at most one synchronous request allocated. So these
requests need not be otherwise limited.
The patch re-works fuse_get_req() to follow this idea.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Existing flag fc->blocked is used to suspend request allocation both in case
of many background request submitted and period of time before init_reply
arrives from userspace. Next patch will skip blocking allocations of
synchronous request (disregarding fc->blocked). This is mostly OK, but
we still need to suspend allocations if init_reply is not arrived yet. The
patch introduces flag fc->initialized which will serve this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
There are two types of processing requests in FUSE: synchronous (via
fuse_request_send()) and asynchronous (via adding to fc->bg_queue).
Fortunately, the type of processing is always known in advance, at the time
of request allocation. This preparatory patch utilizes this fact making
fuse_get_req() aware about the type. Next patches will use it.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
it's used only as a flag to distinguish normal pipes/FIFOs from the
internal per-task one used by file-to-file splice. And pipe->files
would work just as well for that purpose...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.
A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.
Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.
Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives. Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.
This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work. While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases. The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.
This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.
After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module. The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions. In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted. In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
locking violations, etc.
The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
"has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.
Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.
PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
kill f_vfsmnt
vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
...
This patch is a follow up on below patch:
[PATCH] exportfs: add FILEID_INVALID to indicate invalid fid_type
commit: 216b6cbdcb
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi <t.vivek@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
For some filesystems (e.g. GlusterFS), the cost of performing a
normal readdir and readdirplus are identical. Since adaptively
using readdirplus has no benefit for those systems, give
users/filesystems the option to control adaptive readdirplus use.
v2 of this patch incorporates Miklos's suggestion to simplify the code,
as well as improving consistency of macro names and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
commit 626cf23660 "poll: add poll_requested_events()..." enabled us to send the
requested events to the filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
drop_nlink() warns if nlink is already zero. This is triggerable by a buggy
userspace filesystem. The cure, I think, is worse than the disease so disable
the warning.
Reported-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The all pointers within fuse_req must point to valid memory once
fuse_force_forget() returns.
This bug appeared in "fuse: implement NFS-like readdirplus support"
and was never in any official Linux release.
I tested the fuse_force_forget() code path by injecting to fake -ENOMEM and
verified the FORGET operation was called properly in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Use the same adaptive readdirplus mechanism as NFS:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/49299
If the user space implementation wants to disable readdirplus
temporarily, it could just return ENOTSUPP. Then kernel will
recall it with readdir.
Signed-off-by: Feng Shuo <steve.shuo.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Commit c69e8d9c0 added rcu lock to fuse/dir.c It was assuming
that 'task' is some other process but in fact this parameter always
equals to 'current'. Inline this parameter to make it more readable
and remove RCU lock as it is not needed when access current process
credentials.
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
__fuse_direct_io() allocates fuse-requests by calling fuse_get_req(fc, n). The
patch calculates 'n' based on iov[] array. This is useful because allocating
FUSE_MAX_PAGES_PER_REQ page pointers and descriptors for each fuse request
would be waste of memory in case of iov-s of smaller size.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Let fuse_get_user_pages() pack as many iov-s to a single fuse_req as
possible. This is very beneficial in case of iov[] consisting of many
iov-s of relatively small sizes (e.g. PAGE_SIZE).
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch makes preliminary work for the next patch optimizing scatter-gather
direct IO. The idea is to allow fuse_get_user_pages() to pack as many iov-s
to each fuse request as possible. So, here we only rework all related
call-paths to carry iov[] from fuse_direct_IO() to fuse_get_user_pages().
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Previously, anyone who set flag 'argpages' only filled req->pages[] and set
per-request page_offset. This patch re-works all cases where argpages=1 to
fill req->page_descs[] properly.
Having req->page_descs[] filled properly allows to re-work fuse_copy_pages()
to copy page fragments described by req->page_descs[]. This will be useful
for next patches optimizing direct_IO.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The ability to save page pointers along with lengths and offsets in fuse_req
will be useful to cover several iovec-s with a single fuse_req.
Per-request page_offset is removed because anybody who need it can use
req->page_descs[0].offset instead.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
fuse_do_ioctl() already calculates the number of pages it's going to use. It is
stored in 'num_pages' variable. So the patch simply uses it for allocating
fuse_req.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch allocates as many page pointers in fuse_req as needed to cover
interval [pos .. pos+len-1]. Inline helper fuse_wr_pages() is introduced
to hide this cumbersome arithmetic.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch uses 'nr_pages' argument of fuse_readpages() as heuristics for the
number of page pointers to allocate.
This can be improved further by taking in consideration fc->max_read and gaps
between page indices, but it's not clear whether it's worthy or not.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch reworks fuse_retrieve() to allocate only so many page pointers
as needed. The core part of the patch is the following calculation:
num_pages = (num + offset + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
(thanks Miklos for formula). All other changes are mostly shuffling lines.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch categorizes all fuse_get_req() invocations into two categories:
- fuse_get_req_nopages(fc) - when caller doesn't care about req->pages
- fuse_get_req(fc, n) - when caller need n page pointers (n > 0)
Adding fuse_get_req_nopages() helps to avoid numerous fuse_get_req(fc, 0)
scattered over code. Now it's clear from the first glance when a caller need
fuse_req with page pointers.
The patch doesn't make any logic changes. In multi-page case, it silly
allocates array of FUSE_MAX_PAGES_PER_REQ page pointers. This will be amended
by future patches.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The patch removes inline array of FUSE_MAX_PAGES_PER_REQ page pointers from
fuse_req. Instead of that, req->pages may now point either to small inline
array or to an array allocated dynamically.
This essentially means that all callers of fuse_request_alloc[_nofs] should
pass the number of pages needed explicitly.
The patch doesn't make any logic changes.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
This patch implements readdirplus support in FUSE, similar to NFS.
The payload returned in the readdirplus call contains
'fuse_entry_out' structure thereby providing all the necessary inputs
for 'faking' a lookup() operation on the spot.
If the dentry and inode already existed (for e.g. in a re-run of ls -l)
then just the inode attributes timeout and dentry timeout are refreshed.
With a simple client->network->server implementation of a FUSE based
filesystem, the following performance observations were made:
Test: Performing a filesystem crawl over 20,000 files with
sh# time ls -lR /mnt
Without readdirplus:
Run 1: 18.1s
Run 2: 16.0s
Run 3: 16.2s
With readdirplus:
Run 1: 4.1s
Run 2: 3.8s
Run 3: 3.8s
The performance improvement is significant as it avoided 20,000 upcalls
calls (lookup). Cache consistency is no worse than what already is.
Signed-off-by: Anand V. Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The variables mapping,index are initialized but never used
otherwise, so remove the unused variables.
dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch.
(https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Fix the following sparse warning:
fs/fuse/file.c:2249:6: warning: symbol 'fuse_file_fallocate' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Given that CUSE depends on FUSE, it only makes sense to move its
Kconfig entry into the FUSE Kconfig file. Also, add a few grammatical
and semantic touchups.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Fix the following compiler warnings:
fs/fuse/cuse.c: In function 'cuse_process_init_reply':
fs/fuse/cuse.c:288:24: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
fs/fuse/cuse.c:272:14: note: 'val' was declared here
fs/fuse/cuse.c:284:10: warning: 'key' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
fs/fuse/cuse.c:272:8: note: 'key' was declared here
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Sysfs doesn't allow two devices with the same name, but we register a
sysfs entry for each cuse device without checking for name collisions.
This extends the registration to first check whether the name was already
registered.
To avoid race-conditions between the name-check and linking the device, we
need to protect the whole registration with a mutex.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
We need to check for name-collisions during cuse-device registration. To
avoid race-conditions, this needs to be protected during the whole device
registration. Therefore, replace the spinlocks by mutexes first so we can
safely extend the locked regions to include more expensive or sleeping
code paths.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:
"Incoming:
- lots of misc stuff
- backlight tree updates
- lib/ updates
- Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes
- checkpatch
- rtc
- aoe
- more checkpoint/restart support
I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging
later today after which that is good to go. A number of other things
are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges."
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits)
scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error.
docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output
fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output
docs: add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> output
fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper
fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper
fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present
fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper
fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper
procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers
tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test
breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error
kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix
mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
ubifs: use prandom_bytes
mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes
...
But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead. Fix most of the
sites.
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use kuid_t and kgid_t in struct fuse_conn and struct fuse_mount_data.
The connection between between a fuse filesystem and a fuse daemon is
established when a fuse filesystem is mounted and provided with a file
descriptor the fuse daemon created by opening /dev/fuse.
For now restrict the communication of uids and gids between the fuse
filesystem and the fuse daemon to the initial user namespace. Enforce
this by verifying the file descriptor passed to the mount of fuse was
opened in the initial user namespace. Ensuring the mount happens in
the initial user namespace is not necessary as mounts from non-initial
user namespaces are not yet allowed.
In fuse_req_init_context convert the currrent fsuid and fsgid into the
initial user namespace for the request that will be sent to the fuse
daemon.
In fuse_fill_attr convert the uid and gid passed from the fuse daemon
from the initial user namespace into kuids and kgids.
In iattr_to_fattr called from fuse_setattr convert kuids and kgids
into the uids and gids in the initial user namespace before passing
them to the fuse filesystem.
In fuse_change_attributes_common called from fuse_dentry_revalidate,
fuse_permission, fuse_geattr, and fuse_setattr, and fuse_iget convert
the uid and gid from the fuse daemon into a kuid and a kgid to store
on the fuse inode.
By default fuse mounts are restricted to task whose uid, suid, and
euid matches the fuse user_id and whose gid, sgid, and egid matches
the fuse group id. Convert the user_id and group_id mount options
into kuids and kgids at mount time, and use uid_eq and gid_eq to
compare the in fuse_allow_task.
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Move actual pte filling for non-linear file mappings into the new special
vma operation: ->remap_pages().
Filesystems must implement this method to get non-linear mapping support,
if it uses filemap_fault() then generic_file_remap_pages() can be used.
Now device drivers can implement this method and obtain nonlinear vma support.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> #arch/tile
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every
deactivate_locked_super(). We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu
free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache.
Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast
paths. E.g. on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC
namespace takes 0.07538s. rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
In some cases fuse_retrieve() would return a short byte count if offset was
non-zero. The data returned was correct, though.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
gcc 4.6.3 complains about uninitialized variables in fs/fuse/control.c:
CC fs/fuse/control.o
fs/fuse/control.c: In function 'fuse_conn_congestion_threshold_write':
fs/fuse/control.c:165:29: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
fs/fuse/control.c: In function 'fuse_conn_max_background_write':
fs/fuse/control.c:128:23: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
fuse_conn_limit_write() will always return non-zero unless the &val
is modified, so the warning is misleading. Let the compiler know
about it by marking 'val' with 'uninitialized_var'.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Luca Risolia reported that a CUSE daemon will continue to run even if
initialization of the emulated device failes for some reason (e.g. the device
number is already registered by another driver).
This patch disconnects the fuse device on error, which will make the userspace
CUSE daemon exit, albeit without indication about what the problem was.
Reported-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
fuse_conn_kill() removed fc->entry, called fuse_ctl_remove_conn() and
fuse_bdi_destroy(). None of which is appropriate for cuse cleanup.
The fuse_ctl_remove_conn() decrements the nlink on the control filesystem, which
is totally bogus. The others are harmless but unnecessary.
So move these out from fuse_conn_kill() to fuse_put_super() where they belong.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Pull vfs fixes from Miklos Szeredi.
This mainly fixes some confusion about whether the open 'mode' variable
passed around should contain the full file type (S_IFREG etc)
information or just the permission mode. In particular, the lack of
proper file type information had confused fuse.
* 'vfs-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs:
vfs: fix propagation of atomic_open create error on negative dentry
fuse: check create mode in atomic open
vfs: pass right create mode to may_o_create()
vfs: atomic_open(): fix create mode usage
vfs: canonicalize create mode in build_open_flags()
Verify that the VFS is passing us a complete create mode with the S_IFREG to
atomic open.
Reported-by: Steve <steveamigauk@yahoo.co.uk>
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Commit 7572777eef attempted to verify that
the total iovec from the client doesn't overflow iov_length() but it
only checked the first element. The iovec could still overflow by
starting with a small element. The obvious fix is to check all the
elements.
The overflow case doesn't look dangerous to the kernel as the copy is
limited by the length after the overflow. This fix restores the
intention of returning an error instead of successfully copying less
than the iovec represented.
I found this by code inspection. I built it but don't have a test case.
I'm cc:ing stable because the initial commit did as well.
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.37+]
Convert check in fuse_file_aio_write() to using new freeze protection.
CC: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add missing flags that userspace derived from the protocol version number. This
makes the protocol more flexible.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
A fuse-based network filesystem might allow for the inode
and/or file data to change unexpectedly. A local client
that opens and repeatedly reads a file might never pick
up on such changes and indefinitely return stale data.
Always invoke fuse_update_attributes() in the read path
to cause an attr revalidation when the attributes expire.
This leads to a page cache invalidation if necessary and
ensures fuse issues new read requests to the fuse client.
The original logic (reval only on reads beyond EOF) is
preserved unless the client specifies FUSE_AUTO_INVAL_DATA
on init.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
We currently invalidate the inode address space mapping
if the file size changes unexpectedly. In the case of a
fuse network filesystem, a portion of a file could be
overwritten remotely without changing the file size.
Compare the old mtime as well to detect this condition
and invalidate the mapping if the file has been updated.
The original logic (to ignore changes in mtime) is
preserved unless the client specifies FUSE_AUTO_INVAL_DATA
on init.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Just pass struct file *. Methods are happier that way...
There's no need to return struct file * from finish_open() now,
so let it return int. Next: saner prototypes for parts in
namei.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Change of calling conventions:
old new
NULL 1
file 0
ERR_PTR(-ve) -ve
Caller *knows* that struct file *; no need to return it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... and let finish_open() report having opened the file via that sucker.
Next step: don't modify od->filp at all.
[AV: FILE_CREATE was already used by cifs; Miklos' fix folded]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic open+create
operation implemented via ->create. No functionality is changed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify
the inode, so updating time can fail. We've gotten around this by having our
own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he
would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates. So introduce
->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and
indicate which changes need to be made. The normal version just does what it
has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then
filesystems can choose to do something different.
I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for
errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't
quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time
updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and
make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the
generic fault path. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
pass inode + parent's inode or NULL instead of dentry + bool saying
whether we want the parent or not.
NOTE: that needs ceph fix folded in.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
"Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."
* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
Don't use inode->i_blkbits which might be stale, instead calculate the blksize
information from the freshly obtained attributes.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Now we store attr->ino at inode->i_ino, return attr->ino at the
first time and then return inode->i_ino if the attribute timeout
isn't expired. That's wrong on 32 bit platforms because attr->ino
is 64 bit and inode->i_ino is 32 bit in this case.
Fix this by saving 64 bit ino in fuse_inode structure and returning
it every time we call getattr. Also squash attr->ino into inode->i_ino
explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
fallocate filesystem operation preallocates media space for the given file.
If fallocate returns success then any subsequent write to the given range
never fails with 'not enough space' error.
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
This patch replaces the code for getting an number from a
userspace buffer by a simple call to kstroul_from_user.
This makes it easier to read and less error prone.
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: use flexible array in fuse.h
fuse: allow nanosecond granularity
fuse: O_DIRECT support for files
fuse: fix nlink after unlink
Derrik Pates reports that an utimensat with a NULL argument results in the
current time being sent from the kernel with 1 second granularity.
Reported-by: Derrik Pates <demon@now.ai>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
"This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
yet."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
hfsplus: initialise userflags
qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
trim includes in inode.c
um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context
gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent
configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
...
Implement ->direct_IO() method in aops. The ->direct_IO() method combines
the existing fuse_direct_read/fuse_direct_write methods to implement
O_DIRECT functionality.
Reaching ->direct_IO() in the read path via generic_file_aio_read ensures
proper synchronization with page cache with its existing framework.
Reaching ->direct_IO() in the write path via fuse_file_aio_write is made
to come via generic_file_direct_write() which makes it play nice with
the page cache w.r.t other mmap pages etc.
On files marked 'direct_io' by the filesystem server, IO always follows
the fuse_direct_read/write path. There is no effect of fcntl(O_DIRECT)
and it always succeeds.
On files not marked with 'direct_io' by the filesystem server, the IO
path depends on O_DIRECT flag by the application. This can be passed
at the time of open() as well as via fcntl().
Note that asynchronous O_DIRECT iocb jobs are completed synchronously
always (this has been the case with FUSE even before this patch)
Signed-off-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Anand Avati reports that the following sequence of system calls fail on a fuse
filesystem:
create("filename") => 0
link("filename", "linkname") => 0
unlink("filename") => 0
link("linkname", "filename") => -ENOENT ### BUG ###
vfs_link() fails with ENOENT if i_nlink is zero, this is done to prevent
resurrecting already deleted files.
Fuse clears i_nlink on unlink even if there are other links pointing to the
file.
Reported-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
FUSE: Notifying the kernel of deletion.
fuse: support ioctl on directories
fuse: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
fuse: llseek optimize SEEK_CUR and SEEK_SET
vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its
mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent
and it's the only caller of the method
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else. Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Allows a FUSE file-system to tell the kernel when a file or directory is
deleted. If the specified dentry has the specified inode number, the kernel will
unhash it.
The current 'fuse_notify_inval_entry' does not cause the kernel to clean up
directories that are in use properly, and as a result the users of those
directories see incorrect semantics from the file-system. The error condition
seen when 'fuse_notify_inval_entry' is used to notify of a deleted directory is
avoided when 'fuse_notify_delete' is used instead.
The following scenario demonstrates the difference:
1. User A chdirs into 'testdir' and starts reading 'testfile'.
2. User B rm -rf 'testdir'.
3. User B creates 'testdir'.
4. User C chdirs into 'testdir'.
If you run the above within the same machine on any file-system (including fuse
file-systems), there is no problem: user C is able to chdir into the new
testdir. The old testdir is removed from the dentry tree, but still open by user
A.
If operations 2 and 3 are performed via the network such that the fuse
file-system uses one of the notify functions to tell the kernel that the nodes
are gone, then the following error occurs for user C while user A holds the
original directory open:
muirj@empacher:~> ls /test/testdir
ls: cannot access /test/testdir: No such file or directory
The issue here is that the kernel still has a dentry for testdir, and so it is
requesting the attributes for the old directory, while the file-system is
responding that the directory no longer exists.
If on the other hand, if the file-system can notify the kernel that the
directory is deleted using the new 'fuse_notify_delete' function, then the above
ls will find the new directory as expected.
Signed-off-by: John Muir <john@jmuir.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Multiplexing filesystems may want to support ioctls on the underlying
files and directores (e.g. FS_IOC_{GET,SET}FLAGS).
Ioctl support on directories was missing so add it now.
Reported-by: Antonio SJ Musumeci <bile@landofbile.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The advantage of kcalloc is, that will prevent integer overflows which could
result from the multiplication of number of elements and size and it is also
a bit nicer to read.
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Miklos Szeredi