linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 07/14] fs, dax: use page->mapping to warn if truncate collides with a busy page

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Date:   Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:02:13 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, david <david@...morbit.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 07/14] fs, dax: use page->mapping to warn if truncate
 collides with a busy page

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:
> On Wed 21-03-18 15:57:48, Dan Williams wrote:
>> Catch cases where extent unmap operations encounter pages that are
>> pinned / busy. Typically this is pinned pages that are under active dma.
>> This warning is a canary for potential data corruption as truncated
>> blocks could be allocated to a new file while the device is still
>> performing i/o.
>>
>> Here is an example of a collision that this implementation catches:
>>
>>  WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1286 at fs/dax.c:343 dax_disassociate_entry+0x55/0x80
>>  [..]
>>  Call Trace:
>>   __dax_invalidate_mapping_entry+0x6c/0xf0
>>   dax_delete_mapping_entry+0xf/0x20
>>   truncate_exceptional_pvec_entries.part.12+0x1af/0x200
>>   truncate_inode_pages_range+0x268/0x970
>>   ? tlb_gather_mmu+0x10/0x20
>>   ? up_write+0x1c/0x40
>>   ? unmap_mapping_range+0x73/0x140
>>   xfs_free_file_space+0x1b6/0x5b0 [xfs]
>>   ? xfs_file_fallocate+0x7f/0x320 [xfs]
>>   ? down_write_nested+0x40/0x70
>>   ? xfs_ilock+0x21d/0x2f0 [xfs]
>>   xfs_file_fallocate+0x162/0x320 [xfs]
>>   ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3f/0x70
>>   ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x2a/0x50
>>   ? __sb_start_write+0xd0/0x1b0
>>   ? vfs_fallocate+0x20c/0x270
>>   vfs_fallocate+0x154/0x270
>>   SyS_fallocate+0x43/0x80
>>   entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96
>>
>> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
>> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
>
> Two comments when looking at this now:
>
>> +#define for_each_entry_pfn(entry, pfn, end_pfn) \
>> +     for (pfn = dax_radix_pfn(entry), \
>> +                     end_pfn = pfn + dax_entry_size(entry) / PAGE_SIZE; \
>> +                     pfn < end_pfn; \
>> +                     pfn++)
>
> Why don't you declare 'end_pfn' inside the for() block? That way you don't
> have to pass the variable as an argument to for_each_entry_pfn(). It's not
> like you need end_pfn anywhere in the loop body, you just use it to cache
> loop termination index.

Agreed, good catch.

>
>> @@ -547,6 +599,10 @@ static void *dax_insert_mapping_entry(struct address_space *mapping,
>>
>>       spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
>>       new_entry = dax_radix_locked_entry(pfn, flags);
>> +     if (dax_entry_size(entry) != dax_entry_size(new_entry)) {
>> +             dax_disassociate_entry(entry, mapping, false);
>> +             dax_associate_entry(new_entry, mapping);
>> +     }
>
> I find it quite tricky that in case we pass zero page / empty entry into
> dax_[dis]associate_entry(), it will not do anything because
> dax_entry_size() will return 0. Can we add an explicit check into
> dax_[dis]associate_entry() or at least a comment there?

Ok, will do.