linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 tip/perf/core 3/5] fs: add back RCU-delayed freeing of FMODE

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Message-ID: <20241009-eisvogel-zugelangt-d211199df267@brauner>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 12:35:52 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, 
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org, oleg@...hat.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, 
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	mhocko@...nel.org, vbabka@...e.cz, mingo@...nel.org, 
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 tip/perf/core 3/5] fs: add back RCU-delayed freeing of
 FMODE_BACKING file

On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 12:58:00PM GMT, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 1:01 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 11:13:54AM GMT, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 03:52:05PM GMT, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > > > 6cf41fcfe099 ("backing file: free directly") switched FMODE_BACKING
> > > > files to direct freeing as back then there were no use cases requiring
> > > > RCU protected access to such files.
> > > >
> > > > Now, with speculative lockless VMA-to-uprobe lookup logic, we do need to
> > > > have a guarantee that struct file memory is not going to be freed from
> > > > under us during speculative check. So add back RCU-delayed freeing
> > > > logic.
> > > >
> > > > We use headless kfree_rcu_mightsleep() variant, as file_free() is only
> > > > called for FMODE_BACKING files in might_sleep() context.
> > > >
> > > > Suggested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
> > > > Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
> > > > Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>
> > > > ---
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
> >
> > Fwiw, I have another patch series for files that I'm testing that will
> > require me to switch FMODE_BACKING to a SLAB_TYPSAFE_BY_RCU cache. That
> > shouldn't matter for your use-case though.
> 
> Correct, we assume SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU semantics for the common case
> anyways. But hopefully my change won't cause major merge conflicts
> with your patch set.

Please drop this patch and pull the following tag which adds
SLAB_TYPE_SAFE_BY_RCU protection for FMODE_BACKING files aligning them
with regular files lifetime (even though not needed). The branch the tag
is based on is stable and won't change anymore:

git pull -S git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git tags/vfs-6.13.for-bpf.file