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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:07:19 +0100 From: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@...e.cz> To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz> Subject: Re: loop subsystem corrupted after mounting multiple btrfs sub-volumes Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2016-02-26 10:50, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > That's just it though, from what I can tell based on what I've seen and > what you said above, mount(8) isn't doing things correctly in this case. > If we were to do this with something like XFS or ext4, the filesystem > would probably end up completely messed up just because of the log > replay code (assuming they actually mount the second time, I'm not sure > what XFS would do in this case, but I believe that ext4 would allow the > mount as long as the mmp feature is off). It would make sense that this > behavior wouldn't have been noticed before (and probably wouldn't have > mattered even if it had been), because most filesystems don't allow > multiple mounts even if they're all RO, and most people don't try to > mount other filesystems multiple times as a result of this. If this > behavior of allocating a new loop device for each call on a given file > is in fact not BTRFS specific (as implied by your statement about a > possible workaround in mount(8)), then mount(8) really should be fixed > to not do that before we even consider looking at the issues in BTRFS, > as that is behavior that has serious potential to result in data > corruption for any filesystem, not just BTRFS. Well, kernel could "fix" it in a simple way: - don't allow two loop devices pointing to the same file or - don't allow two loop devices pointing to the same file being used by mount(2). Then util-linux would need a behavior change for sure. >> I already found another inconsistency caused by this implementation: >> >> /proc/self/mountinfo reports subvolid of the nearest upper sub-volume >> root for the bind mount, not the sub-volume that was used for creating >> this bind mount, and subvolid that potentially does not correspond to >> any subvolume root. >> >> This could causes problem for evaluation of order of umount(2) that >> should prevent EBUSY. >> >> I was talking about it with David Sterba, and he told, that in the >> current implementation is not optimal. btrfs driver does not have >> sufficient information to evaluate true root of the bind mount. > I've noticed this before myself, but I've never seen any issues > resulting from it; however, I've also not tried calling BTRFS related > ioctls on or from such a mount, so I may just have been lucky. I can imagine two side effects deeply inside mount(8): - "mount -a" uses subvol internally for a path lookup of the default volume or volume corresponding to subvolid. (Only the GIT version, not yet in 2.27.1.) I could imagine that the lookup is confused by a bind mount reporting the searched subvolid and a "random" subvol subvol. But I don't have a reproducer yet, and I am not sure, whether it is really possible. - "umount -a" could have a problem to find a proper order to umount(2) without EBUSY. I did not check the algorithm, so I am not sure, whether it is a real issue. P. S.: There were many problems with btrfs in mount(8): https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=c4af75a84ef3430003c77be2469869aaf3a63e2a https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=618a88140e26a134727a39c906c9cdf6d0c04513 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=d2f8267847ecbe763a3b63af1289bf1179cd8c45 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=2cd28fc82d0c947472a4700d5e764265916fba1e https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=352740e88e2c9cb180fe845ce210b1c7b5ad88c7 -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbrabec@...e.com Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +49 911 7405384547 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 084 001 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ PGP: 830B 40D5 9E05 35D8 5E27 6FA3 717C 209F A04F CD76
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