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Message-Id: <20231211114306.08211860253a77c69bab2a87@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:43:06 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander@...alicyn.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in
/proc/pid/maps
On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:30:47 -0800 Andrei Vagin <avagin@...gle.com> wrote:
> Device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps have to match numbers returned by
> statx for the same files.
>
> /proc/pid/maps shows device and inode numbers of vma->vm_file-s. Here is
> an issue. If a mapped file is on a stackable file system (e.g.,
> overlayfs), vma->vm_file is a backing file whose f_inode is on the
> underlying filesystem. To show correct numbers, we need to get a user
> file and shows its numbers. The same trick is used to show file paths in
> /proc/pid/maps.
>
> But it isn't the end of this story. A file system can manipulate inode numbers
> within the getattr callback (e.g., ovl_getattr), so vfs_getattr must be used to
> get correct numbers.
Al, could you please comment on this?
Thanks.
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -273,9 +273,23 @@ show_map_vma(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> const char *name = NULL;
>
> if (file) {
> - struct inode *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
> - dev = inode->i_sb->s_dev;
> - ino = inode->i_ino;
> + const struct path *path;
> + struct kstat stat;
> +
> + path = file_user_path(file);
> + /*
> + * A file system can manipulate inode numbers within the
> + * getattr callback (e.g. ovl_getattr).
> + */
> + if (!vfs_getattr_nosec(path, &stat, STATX_INO, AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC)) {
> + dev = stat.dev;
> + ino = stat.ino;
> + } else {
> + struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(path->dentry);
> +
> + dev = inode->i_sb->s_dev;
> + ino = inode->i_ino;
> + }
> pgoff = ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> }
>
> --
> 2.43.0.472.g3155946c3a-goog
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