[Devel] [PATCH vz7] fuse: fuse_writepage_locked must check for FUSE_INVALIDATE_FILES

[Konstantin Khorenko]

Dima, please review.

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Best regards,

Konstantin Khorenko,
Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team

On 12/24/2016 06:36 AM, Maxim Patlasov wrote:
> The patch fixes another race dealing with fuse_invalidate_files,
> this time when it races with truncate(2):
>
> Thread A: the flusher performs writeback as usual:
>
>   fuse_writepages -->
>     fuse_send_writepages -->
>       end_page_writeback
>
> but before fuse_send_writepages acquires fc->lock and calls fuse_flush_writepages,
> some innocent user process re-dirty-es the page.
>
> Thread B: truncate(2) attempts to truncate (shrink) file as usual:
>
>   fuse_do_setattr -->
>     invalidate_inode_pages2
>
> (This is possible because Thread A has not incremented fi->writectr yet.) But
> invalidate_inode_pages2 finds that re-dirty-ed page and sticks in:
>
>   invalidate_inode_pages2 -->
>     fuse_launder_page -->
>       fuse_writepage_locked -->
>         fuse_wait_on_page_writeback
>
> Thread A: the flusher proceeds with fuse_flush_writepages, sends write request
> to userspace fuse daemon, but the daemon is not obliged to fulfill it immediately.
> So, thread B waits now for thread A, while thread A waits for userspace.
>
> Now fuse_invalidate_files steps in sticking in filemap_write_and_wait on the
> page locked by Thread B (launder_page always work on a locked page). Deadlock.
>
> The patch fixes deadlock by waking up fuse_writepage_locked after marking
> files with FAIL_IMMEDIATELY flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov at virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  fs/fuse/file.c |   45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
> index 0ffc806..c059a6d 100644
> --- a/fs/fuse/file.c
> +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
> @@ -1963,7 +1963,8 @@ static struct fuse_file *fuse_write_file(struct fuse_conn *fc,
>  }
>
>  static int fuse_writepage_locked(struct page *page,
> -				 struct writeback_control *wbc)
> +				 struct writeback_control *wbc,
> +				 int *fail_immediately)
>  {
>  	struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
>  	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
> @@ -1971,13 +1972,30 @@ static int fuse_writepage_locked(struct page *page,
>  	struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(inode);
>  	struct fuse_req *req;
>  	struct page *tmp_page;
> +	struct fuse_file *ff;
> +	int err = 0;
>
>  	if (fuse_page_is_writeback(inode, page->index)) {
>  		if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) {
>  			redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
>  			return 0;
>  		}
> -		fuse_wait_on_page_writeback(inode, page->index);
> +
> +		/* we can acquire ff here because we do have locked pages here! */
> +		ff = fuse_write_file(fc, get_fuse_inode(inode));
> +		if (!ff)
> +			goto dummy_end_page_wb_err;
> +
> +		/* FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_FILES must be able to wake us up */
> +		__fuse_wait_on_page_writeback_or_invalidate(inode, ff, page->index);
> +
> +		if (test_bit(FUSE_S_FAIL_IMMEDIATELY, &ff->ff_state)) {
> +			if (fail_immediately)
> +				*fail_immediately = 1;
> +			goto dummy_end_page_wb;
> +		}
> +
> +		fuse_release_ff(inode, ff);
>  	}
>
>  	if (test_set_page_writeback(page))
> @@ -2029,13 +2047,24 @@ err_free:
>  err:
>  	end_page_writeback(page);
>  	return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +dummy_end_page_wb_err:
> +	printk("FUSE: page under fwb dirtied on dead file\n");
> +	err = -EIO;
> +	/* fall through ... */
> +dummy_end_page_wb:
> +	if (test_set_page_writeback(page))
> +		BUG();
> +	end_page_writeback(page);
> +	fuse_release_ff(inode, ff);
> +	return err;
>  }
>
>  static int fuse_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
>  {
>  	int err;
>
> -	err = fuse_writepage_locked(page, wbc);
> +	err = fuse_writepage_locked(page, wbc, NULL);
>  	unlock_page(page);
>
>  	return err;
> @@ -2423,8 +2452,14 @@ static int fuse_launder_page(struct page *page)
>  		struct writeback_control wbc = {
>  			.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
>  		};
> -		err = fuse_writepage_locked(page, &wbc);
> -		if (!err)
> +		int fail_immediately = 0;
> +		err = fuse_writepage_locked(page, &wbc, &fail_immediately);
> +		/*
> +		 * We need to check fail_immediately because otherwise
> +		 * fuse_do_setattr may stick in invalidate_inode_pages2
> +		 * forever (if fuse_invalidate_files is in progress).
> +		 */
> +		if (!err && !fail_immediately)
>  			fuse_wait_on_page_writeback(inode, page->index);
>  	}
>  	return err;
>
> .
>