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Message-ID: <20220930194707.GA12456@mail.hallyn.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:47:07 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.pizza>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: In fuse_flush only wait if someone wants the
return code
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 11:46:44AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 16:07, Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.pizza> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> >
> > In my very light testing this resolves a hang where a thread of the
> > fuse server was accessing the fuse filesystem (the fuse server is
> > serving up), when the fuse server is killed.
> >
> > The practical problem is that the fuse server file descriptor was
> > being closed after the file descriptor into the fuse filesystem so
> > that the fuse filesystem operations were being blocked for instead of
> > being aborted. Simply skipping the unnecessary wait resolves this
> > issue.
> >
> > This is just a proof of concept and someone should look to see if the
> > fuse max_background limit could cause a problem with this approach.
>
> Maybe you missed my comments here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJfpegsTmiO-sKaBLgoVT4WxDXBkRES=HF1YmQN1ES7gfJEJ+w@mail.gmail.com/
That's odd - fwiw I too had completely missed that reply, sorry.
> I'm generally okay with this, but please write a proper changelog for
> the patch, also mentioning the issues related to posix locks.
>
> > --- a/fs/fuse/file.c
> > +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
> > @@ -464,6 +464,67 @@ static void fuse_sync_writes(struct inode *inode)
> > fuse_release_nowrite(inode);
> > }
> >
> > +struct fuse_flush_args {
> > + struct fuse_args args;
> > + struct fuse_flush_in inarg;
> > + struct inode *inode;
> > + struct fuse_file *ff;
> > +};
> > +
> > +static void fuse_flush_end(struct fuse_mount *fm, struct fuse_args *args, int err)
> > +{
> > + struct fuse_flush_args *fa = container_of(args, typeof(*fa), args);
> > +
> > + if (err == -ENOSYS) {
> > + fm->fc->no_flush = 1;
> > + err = 0;
> > + }
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * In memory i_blocks is not maintained by fuse, if writeback cache is
> > + * enabled, i_blocks from cached attr may not be accurate.
> > + */
> > + if (!err && fm->fc->writeback_cache)
> > + fuse_invalidate_attr_mask(fa->inode, STATX_BLOCKS);
> > +
> > +
> > + iput(fa->inode);
> > + fuse_file_put(fa->ff, false, false);
> > + kfree(fa);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int fuse_flush_async(struct file *file, fl_owner_t id)
> > +{
> > + struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
> > + struct fuse_mount *fm = get_fuse_mount(inode);
> > + struct fuse_file *ff = file->private_data;
> > + struct fuse_flush_args *fa;
> > + int err;
> > +
> > + fa = kzalloc(sizeof(*fa), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!fa)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > + fa->inarg.fh = ff->fh;
> > + fa->inarg.lock_owner = fuse_lock_owner_id(fm->fc, id);
> > + fa->args.opcode = FUSE_FLUSH;
> > + fa->args.nodeid = get_node_id(inode);
> > + fa->args.in_numargs = 1;
> > + fa->args.in_args[0].size = sizeof(fa->inarg);
> > + fa->args.in_args[0].value = &fa->inarg;
> > + fa->args.force = true;
> > + fa->args.nocreds = true;
> > + fa->args.end = fuse_flush_end;
> > + fa->inode = igrab(inode);
>
> Grabbing the inode should already taken care of by fuse_file_release().
>
> Also please try to reduce duplication in both the above functions.
>
> Thanks,
> Miklos
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