From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] xfs: Fix stale data exposure when readahead races with hole punch
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:24:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190830152449.GA25069@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190829155204.GD5354@magnolia>
On Thu 29-08-19 08:52:04, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 03:10:34PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Hole puching currently evicts pages from page cache and then goes on to
> > remove blocks from the inode. This happens under both XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL
> > and XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL which provides appropriate serialization with
> > racing reads or page faults. However there is currently nothing that
> > prevents readahead triggered by fadvise() or madvise() from racing with
> > the hole punch and instantiating page cache page after hole punching has
> > evicted page cache in xfs_flush_unmap_range() but before it has removed
> > blocks from the inode. This page cache page will be mapping soon to be
> > freed block and that can lead to returning stale data to userspace or
> > even filesystem corruption.
> >
> > Fix the problem by protecting handling of readahead requests by
> > XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED similarly as we protect reads.
> >
> > CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAOQ4uxjQNmxqmtA_VbYW0Su9rKRk2zobJmahcyeaEVOFKVQ5dw@mail.gmail.com/
> > Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>
> Is there a test on xfstests to demonstrate this race?
No, but I can try to create one.
> Will test it out though...
>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Thanks. BTW, will you pick up these patches please?
Honza
>
> --D
>
> > ---
> > fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> > index 28101bbc0b78..d952d5962e93 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> > @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> > #include <linux/falloc.h>
> > #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
> > #include <linux/mman.h>
> > +#include <linux/fadvise.h>
> >
> > static const struct vm_operations_struct xfs_file_vm_ops;
> >
> > @@ -933,6 +934,30 @@ xfs_file_fallocate(
> > return error;
> > }
> >
> > +STATIC int
> > +xfs_file_fadvise(
> > + struct file *file,
> > + loff_t start,
> > + loff_t end,
> > + int advice)
> > +{
> > + struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(file_inode(file));
> > + int ret;
> > + int lockflags = 0;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Operations creating pages in page cache need protection from hole
> > + * punching and similar ops
> > + */
> > + if (advice == POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) {
> > + lockflags = XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED;
> > + xfs_ilock(ip, lockflags);
> > + }
> > + ret = generic_fadvise(file, start, end, advice);
> > + if (lockflags)
> > + xfs_iunlock(ip, lockflags);
> > + return ret;
> > +}
> >
> > STATIC loff_t
> > xfs_file_remap_range(
> > @@ -1232,6 +1257,7 @@ const struct file_operations xfs_file_operations = {
> > .fsync = xfs_file_fsync,
> > .get_unmapped_area = thp_get_unmapped_area,
> > .fallocate = xfs_file_fallocate,
> > + .fadvise = xfs_file_fadvise,
> > .remap_file_range = xfs_file_remap_range,
> > };
> >
> > --
> > 2.16.4
> >
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-30 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-29 13:10 [PATCH 0/3 v2] xfs: Fix races between readahead and hole punching Jan Kara
2019-08-29 13:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: Handle MADV_WILLNEED through vfs_fadvise() Jan Kara
2019-08-29 15:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-08-29 13:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] fs: Export generic_fadvise() Jan Kara
2019-08-29 13:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: Fix stale data exposure when readahead races with hole punch Jan Kara
2019-08-29 15:52 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-08-30 15:24 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2019-08-30 16:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-09-18 12:31 ` Jan Kara
2019-09-18 16:07 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-09-23 12:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2019-09-24 15:23 ` Jan Kara
2019-09-24 15:45 ` Boaz Harrosh
2020-01-17 10:50 ` [PATCH 0/3 v2] xfs: Fix races between readahead and hole punching Amir Goldstein
2020-01-19 8:35 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-20 11:47 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-20 12:03 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-20 13:54 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-20 16:58 ` Jan Kara
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-07-11 14:00 [PATCH 0/3] " Jan Kara
2019-07-11 14:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: Fix stale data exposure when readahead races with hole punch Jan Kara
2019-07-11 15:28 ` Amir Goldstein
2019-07-11 15:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-07-12 12:00 ` Jan Kara
2019-07-12 17:56 ` Darrick J. Wong
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