From: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] nfs: check for NULL vfsmount in nfs_getattr
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 02:04:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180803020446.GF20761@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180802004347.GV30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Hi Al,
On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 01:43:48AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:51:57PM +0000, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:16:05PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 02:10:43PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> > > > ->getattr from inside the kernel won't always have a vfsmount, check for
> > > > this.
> > >
> > > Really? Where would that happen?
> >
> > It happens in my first patch. FWIW, I'm not tied to that particular bit of
> > code, or even this (latest) approach. I would actually very much appreciate
> > your input into how we might fix the problem we have where we are sometimes
> > not exporting a correct ino/dev pair to user space.
>
> Which callers would those be? I don't see anything in your series that
> wouldn't have vfsmount at hand...
You are correct - there's no callers in my patch series that don't have a
vfsmount available. I can remove patch #2 and pass the vfsmount through.
At some point I was trying to plug this callback into audit_copy_inode()
which AFAICT doesn't have a vfsmount to pass in when we're coming from
vfs_rename (vfs_rename() -> fsnotify_move()). I will eventually have to go
back and handle this for audit though so it seems worth mentioning here.
> > I have a good break-down of the problem and possible solutions here:
> >
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg128003.html
>
> btrfs pulling odd crap with device numbers is a problem, but this is far from
> the most obvious unpleasantness caused by that - e.g. userland code expecting
> that unequal st_dev for directory and subdirectory means that we have
> a mountpoint there. Or assuming it can compare that to st_dev of mountpoints
> (or, indeed, the values in /proc/self/mountinfo) to find which fs it's on...
Indeed, I agree that all of these are pretty gross and things I'd like to
see fixed - I have to deal with subvolume boundaries in some of my own
software. I know Jeff is working on some code to give subvolumes their own
vfsmount but that wouldn't help with our device reporting unless we did
something like move s_dev from the super_block to the vfsmount (also an idea
that's been thrown around).
> /proc/*/maps is unfortunate, but it does contain the pathnames, doesn't it?
> What _real_ problems are there - the ones where we don't have a saner solution?
> Note that /proc/locks is (a) FPOS interface and (b) unsuitable for your
> approach anyway.
Yeah I see now that /proc/locks isn't going to work with something calling
into ->getattr().
Primarily my concerns are /proc/*/maps and audit (which is recording ino/dev
pairs). Even though /proc/*/maps prints a path it is still a problem as
there is no way for userspace to verify that the inode it stats using that
path is the correct one.
I don't mean to overstate the case but the /proc/*/maps issue is real to us
(SUSE) in that it's produced bug reports. For example, lsof produces
confusing output when we run with a btrfs subvolume as root.
As far as problems that can't be solved by this approach - there are
tracepoints in events/lock.h and events/writeback.h which ought to be
reporting the correct ino/dev pairs. There's of course /proc/locks too. I
acknowledge that whether those are severe enough to warrant a different
approach might be up for debate.
Thanks,
--Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-03 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-31 21:10 [RFC PATCH 0/4] vfs: map unique ino/dev pairs for user space Mark Fasheh
2018-07-31 21:10 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: introduce function to map unique ino/dev pairs Mark Fasheh
2018-07-31 23:21 ` Mark Fasheh
2018-08-01 5:41 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-08-01 15:59 ` Mark Fasheh
2018-07-31 21:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] nfs: check for NULL vfsmount in nfs_getattr Mark Fasheh
2018-07-31 22:16 ` Al Viro
2018-07-31 22:51 ` Mark Fasheh
2018-08-02 0:43 ` Al Viro
2018-08-03 2:04 ` Mark Fasheh [this message]
2018-07-31 21:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] proc: use vfs helper to get ino/dev pairs for maps file Mark Fasheh
2018-07-31 21:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] locks: map correct ino/dev pairs when exporting to userspace Mark Fasheh
2018-08-01 5:37 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-08-01 17:45 ` Mark Fasheh
2018-08-01 11:03 ` Jeff Layton
2018-08-01 20:38 ` Mark Fasheh
2018-08-02 0:24 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] vfs: map unique ino/dev pairs for user space J. R. Okajima
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