linux/fs/cachefiles, branch v4.8

cachefiles: Fix race between inactivating and culling a cache object

2016-08-03T17:33:26Z

There's a race between cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() and cachefiles_cull(): (1) cachefiles_cull() can't delete a backing file until the cache object is marked inactive, but as soon as that's the case it's fair game. (2) cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() marks the object as being inactive and *only then* reads the i_blocks on the backing inode - but cachefiles_cull() might've managed to delete it by this point. Fix this by making sure cachefiles_mark_object_inactive() gets any data it needs from the backing inode before deactivating the object. Without this, the following oops may occur: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000098 IP: [] cachefiles_mark_object_inactive+0x61/0xb0 [cachefiles] ... CPU: 11 PID: 527 Comm: kworker/u64:4 Tainted: G I ------------ 3.10.0-470.el7.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Z600 Workstation/0B54h, BIOS 786G4 v03.19 03/11/2011 Workqueue: fscache_object fscache_object_work_func [fscache] task: ffff880035edaf10 ti: ffff8800b77c0000 task.ti: ffff8800b77c0000 RIP: 0010:[] cachefiles_mark_object_inactive+0x61/0xb0 [cachefiles] RSP: 0018:ffff8800b77c3d70 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800bf6cc400 RCX: 0000000000000034 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880090ffc710 RDI: ffff8800bf761ef8 RBP: ffff8800b77c3d88 R08: 2000000000000000 R09: 0090ffc710000000 R10: ff51005d2ff1c400 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880090ffc600 R13: ffff8800bf6cc520 R14: ffff8800bf6cc400 R15: ffff8800bf6cc498 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8800bb8c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000098 CR3: 00000000019ba000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Stack: ffff880090ffc600 ffff8800bf6cc400 ffff8800867df140 ffff8800b77c3db0 ffffffffa06c48cb ffff880090ffc600 ffff880090ffc180 ffff880090ffc658 ffff8800b77c3df0 ffffffffa085d846 ffff8800a96b8150 ffff880090ffc600 Call Trace: [] cachefiles_drop_object+0x6b/0xf0 [cachefiles] [] fscache_drop_object+0xd6/0x1e0 [fscache] [] fscache_object_work_func+0xa5/0x200 [fscache] [] process_one_work+0x17b/0x470 [] worker_thread+0x126/0x410 [] ? rescuer_thread+0x460/0x460 [] kthread+0xcf/0xe0 [] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140 [] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90 [] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140 The oopsing code shows: callq 0xffffffff810af6a0 mov 0xf8(%r12),%rax mov 0x30(%rax),%rax mov 0x98(%rax),%rax <---- oops here lock add %rax,0x130(%rbx) where this is: d_backing_inode(object->dentry)->i_blocks Fixes: a5b3a80b899bda0f456f1246c4c5a1191ea01519 (CacheFiles: Provide read-and-reset release counters for cachefilesd) Reported-by: Jianhong Yin Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'd_real' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs into work.misc

2016-07-01T03:34:49Z

FS-Cache: make check_consistency callback return int

2016-06-01T08:29:39Z

__fscache_check_consistency() calls check_consistency() callback and return the callback's return value. But the return type of check_consistency() is bool. So __fscache_check_consistency() return 1 if the cache is inconsistent. This is inconsistent with the document. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng Acked-by: David Howells

drop redundant ->owner initializations

2016-05-29T23:08:00Z

it's not needed for file_operations of inodes located on fs defined in the hosting module and for file_operations that go into procfs. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

2016-04-04T17:41:08Z

PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE. This promise never materialized. And unlikely will. We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case, especially on the border between fs and mm. Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much breakage to be doable. Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are not. The changes are pretty straight-forward: - << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ; - >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ; - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN}; - page_cache_get() -> get_page(); - page_cache_release() -> put_page(); This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using script below. For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files. I've called spatch for them manually. The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later. There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach. I'll fix them manually in a separate patch. Comments and documentation also will be addressed with the separate patch. virtual patch @@ expression E; @@ - E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) + E @@ expression E; @@ - E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) + E @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT + PAGE_SHIFT @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_SIZE + PAGE_SIZE @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_MASK + PAGE_MASK @@ expression E; @@ - PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E) + PAGE_ALIGN(E) @@ expression E; @@ - page_cache_get(E) + get_page(E) @@ expression E; @@ - page_cache_release(E) + put_page(E) Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

CacheFiles: Provide read-and-reset release counters for cachefilesd

2016-02-01T17:30:10Z

Provide read-and-reset objects- and blocks-released counters for cachefilesd to use to work out whether there's anything new that can be culled. One of the problems cachefilesd has is that if all the objects in the cache are pinned by inodes lying dormant in the kernel inode cache, there isn't anything for it to cull. In such a case, it just spins around walking the filesystem tree and scanning for something to cull. This eats up a lot of CPU time. By telling cachefilesd if there have been any releases, the daemon can sleep until there is the possibility of something to do. cachefilesd finds this information by the following means: (1) When the control fd is read, the kernel presents a list of values of interest. "freleased=N" and "breleased=N" are added to this list to indicate the number of files released and number of blocks released since the last read call. At this point the counters are reset. (2) POLLIN is signalled if the number of files released becomes greater than 0. Note that by 'released' it just means that the kernel has released its interest in those files for the moment, not necessarily that the files should be deleted from the cache. Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson Signed-off-by: Al Viro

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

2016-01-22T23:04:28Z

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested}, inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex). Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle ->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held only shared. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

convert a bunch of open-coded instances of memdup_user_nul()

2016-01-04T15:26:58Z

A _lot_ of ->write() instances were open-coding it; some are converted to memdup_user_nul(), a lot more remain... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

FS-Cache: Add missing initialization of ret in cachefiles_write_page()

2015-11-17T01:38:43Z

fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c: In function ‘cachefiles_write_page’: fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c:882: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function If the jump to label "error" is taken, "ret" will indeed be uninitialized, and random stack data may be printed by the debug code. Fixes: 102f4d900c9c8f5e ("FS-Cache: Handle a write to the page immediately beyond the EOF marker") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro

FS-Cache: Handle a write to the page immediately beyond the EOF marker

2015-11-11T07:11:02Z

Handle a write being requested to the page immediately beyond the EOF marker on a cache object. Currently this gets an assertion failure in CacheFiles because the EOF marker is used there to encode information about a partial page at the EOF - which could lead to an unknown blank spot in the file if we extend the file over it. The problem is actually in fscache where we check the index of the page being written against store_limit. store_limit is set to the number of pages that we're allowed to store by fscache_set_store_limit() - which means it's one more than the index of the last page we're allowed to store. The problem is that we permit writing to a page with an index _equal_ to the store limit - when we should reject that case. Whilst we're at it, change the triggered assertion in CacheFiles to just return -ENOBUFS instead. The assertion failure looks something like this: CacheFiles: Assertion failed 1000 < 7b1 is false ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c:962! ... RIP: 0010:[] [] cachefiles_write_page+0x273/0x2d0 [cachefiles] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.31+; earlier - that + backport of a17754f (at least) Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro