3.16.70-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Kirill Smelkov kirr@nexedi.com
commit bbd84f33652f852ce5992d65db4d020aba21f882 upstream.
Starting from commit 9c225f2655e3 ("vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX") files opened even via nonseekable_open gate read and write via lock and do not allow them to be run simultaneously. This can create read vs write deadlock if a filesystem is trying to implement a socket-like file which is intended to be simultaneously used for both read and write from filesystem client. See commit 10dce8af3422 ("fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock") for details and e.g. commit 581d21a2d02a ("xenbus: fix deadlock on writes to /proc/xen/xenbus") for a similar deadlock example on /proc/xen/xenbus.
To avoid such deadlock it was tempting to adjust fuse_finish_open to use stream_open instead of nonseekable_open on just FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE flags, but grepping through Debian codesearch shows users of FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE, and in particular GVFS which actually uses offset in its read and write handlers
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=-%3Enonseekable+%3D https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfused... https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfused... https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfused...
so if we would do such a change it will break a real user.
Add another flag (FOPEN_STREAM) for filesystem servers to indicate that the opened handler is having stream-like semantics; does not use file position and thus the kernel is free to issue simultaneous read and write request on opened file handle.
This patch together with stream_open() should be added to stable kernels starting from v3.14+. This will allow to patch OSSPD and other FUSE filesystems that provide stream-like files to return FOPEN_STREAM | FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE in open handler and this way avoid the deadlock on all kernel versions. This should work because fuse_finish_open ignores unknown open flags returned from a filesystem and so passing FOPEN_STREAM to a kernel that is not aware of this flag cannot hurt. In turn the kernel that is not aware of FOPEN_STREAM will be < v3.14 where just FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE is sufficient to implement streams without read vs write deadlock.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+ Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov kirr@nexedi.com Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- fs/fuse/file.c | 4 +++- include/uapi/linux/fuse.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c index bc8f5de48fd9..69e471b042a6 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/file.c +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c @@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ void fuse_finish_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) file->f_op = &fuse_direct_io_file_operations; if (!(ff->open_flags & FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE)) invalidate_inode_pages2(inode->i_mapping); - if (ff->open_flags & FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE) + if (ff->open_flags & FOPEN_STREAM) + stream_open(inode, file); + else if (ff->open_flags & FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE) nonseekable_open(inode, file); if (fc->atomic_o_trunc && (file->f_flags & O_TRUNC)) { struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(inode); diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h index 25084a052a1e..cff91b018953 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h @@ -205,10 +205,12 @@ struct fuse_file_lock { * FOPEN_DIRECT_IO: bypass page cache for this open file * FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE: don't invalidate the data cache on open * FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE: the file is not seekable + * FOPEN_STREAM: the file is stream-like (no file position at all) */ #define FOPEN_DIRECT_IO (1 << 0) #define FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE (1 << 1) #define FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE (1 << 2) +#define FOPEN_STREAM (1 << 4)
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