linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ceph: invalidate pages when doing DIO in encrypted inodes

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Message-ID: <f0ed169ed02fe810076e959e9ec5455d9de4b4ff.camel@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 06 Apr 2022 09:41:04 -0400
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To:     Xiubo Li <xiubli@...hat.com>,
        Luís Henriques <lhenriques@...e.de>
Cc:     Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ceph: invalidate pages when doing DIO in encrypted
 inodes

On Wed, 2022-04-06 at 21:10 +0800, Xiubo Li wrote:
> On 4/6/22 7:48 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-04-06 at 12:33 +0100, Luís Henriques wrote:
> > > Xiubo Li <xiubli@...hat.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On 4/6/22 6:57 PM, Luís Henriques wrote:
> > > > > Xiubo Li <xiubli@...hat.com> writes:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > On 4/1/22 9:32 PM, Luís Henriques wrote:
> > > > > > > When doing DIO on an encrypted node, we need to invalidate the page cache in
> > > > > > > the range being written to, otherwise the cache will include invalid data.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@...e.de>
> > > > > > > ---
> > > > > > >     fs/ceph/file.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> > > > > > >     1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Changes since v1:
> > > > > > > - Replaced truncate_inode_pages_range() by invalidate_inode_pages2_range
> > > > > > > - Call fscache_invalidate with FSCACHE_INVAL_DIO_WRITE if we're doing DIO
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Note: I'm not really sure this last change is required, it doesn't really
> > > > > > > affect generic/647 result, but seems to be the most correct.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > diff --git a/fs/ceph/file.c b/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > > > > > index 5072570c2203..b2743c342305 100644
> > > > > > > --- a/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > > > > > +++ b/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > > > > > @@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ ceph_sync_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from, loff_t pos,
> > > > > > >     	if (ret < 0)
> > > > > > >     		return ret;
> > > > > > >     -	ceph_fscache_invalidate(inode, false);
> > > > > > > +	ceph_fscache_invalidate(inode, (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT));
> > > > > > >     	ret = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(inode->i_mapping,
> > > > > > >     					    pos >> PAGE_SHIFT,
> > > > > > >     					    (pos + count - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > > > > The above has already invalidated the pages, why doesn't it work ?
> > > > > I suspect the reason is because later on we loop through the number of
> > > > > pages, call copy_page_from_iter() and then ceph_fscrypt_encrypt_pages().
> > > > Checked the 'copy_page_from_iter()', it will do the kmap for the pages but will
> > > > kunmap them again later. And they shouldn't update the i_mapping if I didn't
> > > > miss something important.
> > > > 
> > > > For 'ceph_fscrypt_encrypt_pages()' it will encrypt/dencrypt the context inplace,
> > > > IMO if it needs to map the page and it should also unmap it just like in
> > > > 'copy_page_from_iter()'.
> > > > 
> > > > I thought it possibly be when we need to do RMW, it may will update the
> > > > i_mapping when reading contents, but I checked the code didn't find any
> > > > place is doing this. So I am wondering where tha page caches come from ? If that
> > > > page caches really from reading the contents, then we should discard it instead
> > > > of flushing it back ?
> > > > 
> > > > BTW, what's the problem without this fixing ? xfstest fails ?
> > > Yes, generic/647 fails if you run it with test_dummy_encryption.  And I've
> > > also checked that the RMW code was never executed in this test.
> > > 
> > > But yeah I have assumed (perhaps wrongly) that the kmap/kunmap could
> > > change the inode->i_mapping.
> > > 
> > No, kmap/unmap are all about high memory and 32-bit architectures. Those
> > functions are usually no-ops on 64-bit arches.
> 
> Yeah, right.
> 
> So they do nothing here.
> 
> > > In my debugging this seemed to be the case
> > > for the O_DIRECT path.  That's why I added this extra call here.
> > > 
> > I agree with Xiubo that we really shouldn't need to invalidate multiple
> > times.
> > 
> > I guess in this test, we have a DIO write racing with an mmap read
> > Probably what's happening is either that we can't invalidate the page
> > because it needs to be cleaned, or the mmap read is racing in just after
> > the invalidate occurs but before writeback.
> 
> This sounds a possible case.
> 
> 
> > In any case, it might be interesting to see whether you're getting
> > -EBUSY back from the new invalidate_inode_pages2 calls with your patch.
> > 
> If it's really this case maybe this should be retried some where ?
> 

Possibly, or we may need to implement ->launder_folio.

Either way, we need to understand what's happening first and then we can
figure out a solution for it.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>