Re: [PATCH 03/11] mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>,
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	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
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	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>, Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 20:38:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJ2AR0IURFzz+52G@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210513190114.GJ2734@quack2.suse.cz>

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:01:14PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 12-05-21 15:40:21, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Remind me (or, rather, add to the documentation) why we have to hold the
> > invalidate_lock during the call to readpage / readahead, and we don't just
> > hold it around the call to add_to_page_cache / add_to_page_cache_locked
> > / add_to_page_cache_lru ?  I appreciate that ->readpages is still going
> > to suck, but we're down to just three implementations of ->readpages now
> > (9p, cifs & nfs).
> 
> There's a comment in filemap_create_page() trying to explain this. We need
> to protect against cases like: Filesystem with 1k blocksize, file F has
> page at index 0 with uptodate buffer at 0-1k, rest not uptodate. All blocks
> underlying page are allocated. Now let read at offset 1k race with hole
> punch at offset 1k, length 1k.
> 
> read()					hole punch
> ...
>   filemap_read()
>     filemap_get_pages()
>       - page found in the page cache but !Uptodate
>       filemap_update_page()
> 					  locks everything
> 					  truncate_inode_pages_range()
> 					    lock_page(page)
> 					    do_invalidatepage()
> 					    unlock_page(page)
>         locks page
>           filemap_read_page()

Ah, this is the partial_start case, which means that page->mapping
is still valid.  But that means that do_invalidatepage() was called
with (offset 1024, length 1024), immediately after we called
zero_user_segment().  So isn't this a bug in the fs do_invalidatepage()?
The range from 1k-2k _is_ uptodate.  It's been zeroed in memory,
and if we were to run after the "free block" below, we'd get that
memory zeroed again.

>             ->readpage()
>               block underlying offset 1k
> 	      still allocated -> map buffer
> 					  free block under offset 1k
> 	      submit IO -> corrupted data
> 
> If you think I should expand it to explain more details, please tell.
> Or maybe I can put more detailed discussion like above into the changelog?

> > Why not:
> > 
> > 	__init_rwsem(&mapping->invalidate_lock, "mapping.invalidate_lock",
> > 			&sb->s_type->invalidate_lock_key);
> 
> I replicated what we do for i_rwsem but you're right, this is better.
> Updated.

Hmm, there's a few places we should use __init_rwsem() ... something
for my "when bored" pile of work.