From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vlastimil Babka Subject: [PATCH 2/3] mm/filemap: initiate readahead even if IOCB_NOWAIT is set for the I/O Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:44:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20190130124420.1834-3-vbabka@suse.cz> References: <20190130124420.1834-1-vbabka@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190130124420.1834-1-vbabka@suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Greg KH , Jann Horn , Jiri Kosina , Dominique Martinet , Andy Lutomirski , Dave Chinner , Kevin Easton , Matthew Wilcox , Cyril Hrubis , Tejun Heo , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Daniel Gruss , Vlastimil Babka , Jiri Kosina List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org From: Jiri Kosina preadv2(RWF_NOWAIT) can be used to open a side-channel to pagecache contents, as it reveals metadata about residency of pages in pagecache. If preadv2(RWF_NOWAIT) returns immediately, it provides a clear "page not resident" information, and vice versa. Close that sidechannel by always initiating readahead on the cache if we encounter a cache miss for preadv2(RWF_NOWAIT); with that in place, probing the pagecache residency itself will actually populate the cache, making the sidechannel useless. Originally-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dominique Martinet Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kevin Easton Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Cyril Hrubis Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Daniel Gruss Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka --- mm/filemap.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 9f5e323e883e..7bcdd36e629d 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2075,8 +2075,6 @@ static ssize_t generic_file_buffered_read(struct kiocb *iocb, page = find_get_page(mapping, index); if (!page) { - if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) - goto would_block; page_cache_sync_readahead(mapping, ra, filp, index, last_index - index); -- 2.20.1