RE: [RFC PATCH 1/2] vfs: pass file down when getattr to avoid losing info.

[Jianyong Wu <Jianyong.Wu@arm.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 10:54 PM
> To: Jianyong Wu <Jianyong.Wu@arm.com>
> Cc: ericvh@gmail.com; hch@lst.de; dhowells@redhat.com;
> lucho@ionkov.net; v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; Kaly Xin <Kaly.Xin@arm.com>; Justin He
> <Justin.He@arm.com>; Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@arm.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] vfs: pass file down when getattr to avoid losing
> info.
>
> Jianyong Wu wrote on Mon, Jul 20, 2020:
> > Currently, getting attribute for a file represented by fd is always by
> > inode or path which may lead to bug for a certain network file system.
> > Adding file struct into struct kstat and assigning file for it in
> > vfs_statx_fd can avoid this issue. This change refers to struct istat.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/stat.c            | 1 +
> >  include/linux/stat.h | 6 ++++++
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
> > index 44f8ad346db4..0dee5487f6d6 100644
> > --- a/fs/stat.c
> > +++ b/fs/stat.c
> > @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ int vfs_statx_fd(unsigned int fd, struct kstat *stat,
> >  return -EINVAL;
> >
> >  f = fdget_raw(fd);
> > +stat->filp = f.file;
> >  if (f.file) {
> >  error = vfs_getattr(&f.file->f_path, stat,
> >      request_mask, query_flags);
> > diff --git a/include/linux/stat.h b/include/linux/stat.h index
> > 56614af83d4a..4755c528d49a 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/stat.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/stat.h
> > @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ struct kstat {
> >  struct timespec64 btime;/* File creation time
> */
> >  u64blocks;
> >  u64mnt_id;
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Not an attribute, but an auxiliary info for filesystems wanting to
> > + * implement an fstat() like method.
> > + */
> > +struct file*filp;
>
> Just, no ; don't touch this, it isn't likely to get accepted ever.
> file operations should all have a filp around already, we need to fix this in our
> code.
>
Ok, but I think it may not be an easy job to fix it inside 9p.

> (also missing quite a few Cc if you ever want to touch these bits, at least
> linux-fsdevel@)
> thanks. Should have added them.
>
>
> FWIW the problem has been discussed a few times previously.
>
> I'd appreciate if you could take over from Eric and Greg's old series that
> intended to fix that:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/146659832556.15781.17414806975641516683.
> stgit@bahia.lan/
>
> it introduced a race somewhere, but the idea looked good at the time so it's
> worth looking into.

Thanks, I will look into it to find some ideas. if I can get the solution, I will be back.

Thanks
Jianyong
>
> --
> Dominique
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