Re: [PATCH] test race when checking i_size on direct i/o read

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On 28.08.2017 13:35, Eryu Guan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 03:35:02PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> In this commit a new test case is added to test that i_size races don't
>> occur under dio reads/writes.  We add a program in /src dir, which
>> has a writer to issue some append dio writes.  Meanwhile it has a reader
>> in this test to do some dio reads.  As we expect, reader should read
>> nothing or data with 'a'.  But it might read some data with '0'.
>>
>> The bug can be reproduced by this test case [1].
>>
>> 1.  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/311761/
>>
>> This ostensibly tests commit:
>> 9fe55eea7 Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read
>>
>> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> [sandeen: update to recent xfstests, update commitlog]
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> This test was originally titled:
>>
>>  xfstests: add a new test case to test i_size updated properly under dio
>>
>> but I think the issue is more of when and how it's tested, not how
>> it's updated.
>>
>> Note, this passes on xfs on 4.10, but fails on 4.12.
>> ext4 on 4.10 passes as well but is very slow.
>>
>> iomap dio maybe?  Not sure yet.
> 
> It failed for me with XFS and btrfs, ext4 passed test, kernel is
> 4.13-rc5. But I found that the alignment for write buffer matters too
> for reproducing the btrfs failure, see below.

In btrfs, if the buffers are not aligned to pagesize, then we fall back
to buffered write, so that's likely why.
> 
>>
>> changelog v3:
>>  * rebase against latest xfstests/master branch
>>  * update commit log
> 
> Thanks for picking up the test again! And sorry that I got to it late..
> 
>>
>> changelog v2:
>>  * add '-lpthread' into LLDLIBS
>>
>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>> index 57092f1..4663004 100644
>> --- a/configure.ac
>> +++ b/configure.ac
>> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ AC_PACKAGE_NEED_GETXATTR_LIBATTR
>>  AC_PACKAGE_NEED_SYS_ACL_H
>>  AC_PACKAGE_NEED_ACL_LIBACL_H
>>  AC_PACKAGE_NEED_ACLINIT_LIBACL
>> +AC_PACKAGE_NEED_PTHREADMUTEXINIT
>>  
>>  AC_PACKAGE_WANT_GDBM
>>  AC_PACKAGE_WANT_AIO
>> diff --git a/include/builddefs.in b/include/builddefs.in
>> index cb52b99..fcc8b90 100644
>> --- a/include/builddefs.in
>> +++ b/include/builddefs.in
>> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ LIBGDBM = @libgdbm@
>>  LIBUUID = @libuuid@
>>  LIBHANDLE = @libhdl@
>>  LIBDM = @libdm@
>> +LIBPTHREAD = @libpthread@
>>  LIBTEST = $(TOPDIR)/lib/libtest.la
>>  prefix = @prefix@
>>  
>> diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
>> index b8aff49..e9419bd 100644
>> --- a/src/Makefile
>> +++ b/src/Makefile
>> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ LINUX_TARGETS = xfsctl bstat t_mtab getdevicesize preallo_rw_pattern_reader \
>>  	seek_copy_test t_readdir_1 t_readdir_2 fsync-tester nsexec cloner \
>>  	renameat2 t_getcwd e4compact test-nextquota punch-alternating \
>>  	attr-list-by-handle-cursor-test listxattr dio-interleaved t_dir_type \
>> -	dio-invalidate-cache stat_test t_encrypted_d_revalidate
>> +	dio-invalidate-cache stat_test t_encrypted_d_revalidate diotest
> 
> I think a more specific name would be better than just "diotest" :)
> 
>>  
>>  SUBDIRS =
>>  
>> diff --git a/src/diotest.c b/src/diotest.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..7d2378f
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/src/diotest.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright (c) 2013 Alibaba Group.
>> + * All Rights Reserved.
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>> + *
>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it would be useful,
>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> + *
>> + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> + * along with this program; if not, write the Free Software Foundation,
>> + * Inc.,  51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
>> + */
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * This is a normal case that we do some append dio writes and meanwhile
>> + * we do some dio reads.  Currently in vfs we don't ensure that i_size
>> + * is updated properly.  Hence the reader will read some data with '0'.
>> + * But we expect that the reader should read nothing or data with 'a'.
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <stdio.h>
>> +#include <stdlib.h>
>> +#include <string.h>
>> +
>> +#include <unistd.h>
>> +#include <sys/types.h>
>> +#include <sys/stat.h>
>> +#include <fcntl.h>
>> +#include <errno.h>
>> +
>> +#include <pthread.h>
>> +
>> +static char *prog;
>> +
>> +struct writer_data {
>> +	int fd;
>> +	size_t blksize;
>> +	char *buf;
>> +};
>> +
>> +static void usage(void)
>> +{
>> +	fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [FILE]\n", prog);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void *writer(void *arg)
>> +{
>> +	struct writer_data *data = (struct writer_data *)arg;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	ret = write(data->fd, data->buf, data->blksize);
>> +	if (ret < 0)
>> +		fprintf(stderr, "write file failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
>> +
>> +	return NULL;
>> +}
>> +
>> +int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>> +{
>> +	pthread_t tid;
>> +	struct writer_data wdata;
>> +	size_t max_blocks = 128;		/* 128 */
>> +	size_t blksize = 1 * 1024 * 1024;	/* 1M */
>> +	char *rbuf = NULL, *wbuf = NULL;
>> +	int rfd = 0, wfd = 0;
>> +	int i, j;
>> +	int ret = 0;
>> +
>> +	prog = basename(argv[0]);
>> +
>> +	if (argc != 2) {
>> +		usage();
>> +		exit(1);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	wfd = open(argv[1], O_CREAT|O_DIRECT|O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_TRUNC, S_IRWXU);
>> +	if (wfd < 0) {
>> +		fprintf(stderr, "failed to open write file: %s\n",
>> +			strerror(errno));
>> +		exit(1);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	rfd = open(argv[1], O_DIRECT|O_RDONLY, S_IRWXU);
>> +	if (wfd < 0) {
>> +		fprintf(stderr, "failed to open read file: %s\n",
>> +			strerror(errno));
>> +		ret = 1;
>> +		goto err;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * We set 1024 as an alignment size for write buf.  Feel free to change
>> +	 * it with 4096.  But the problem is also hitted.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (posix_memalign((void **)&wbuf, 1024, blksize)) {
> 
> I suspect that a hardcoded 1024 alignment won't work for 4k sector
> device, but, as I mentioned above, changing it to 4096 made test on
> btrfs pass, even the comment said it didn't matter.
> 
> How about passing the alignment requirement as an argument from the
> shell script? This can be looked up with _min_dio_alignment.
> 
>> +		fprintf(stderr, "failed to alloc memory: %s\n", strerror(errno));
>> +		ret = 1;
>> +		goto err;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	if (posix_memalign((void **)&rbuf, 4096, blksize)) {
>> +		fprintf(stderr, "failed to alloc memory: %s\n", strerror(errno));
>> +		ret = 1;
>> +		goto err;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	memset(wbuf, 'a', blksize);
>> +	wdata.fd = wfd;
>> +	wdata.blksize = blksize;
>> +	wdata.buf = wbuf;
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i < max_blocks; i++) {
>> +		void *retval;
>> +
>> +		if (pthread_create(&tid, NULL, writer, &wdata)) {
>> +			fprintf(stderr, "create thread failed: %s\n",
>> +				strerror(errno));
>> +			ret = 1;
>> +			goto err;
>> +		}
>> +
>> +		memset(rbuf, 'b', blksize);
>> +		do {
>> +			ret = pread(rfd, rbuf, blksize, i * blksize);
>> +			if (ret < 0)
>> +				fprintf(stderr, "read file failed: %s\n",
>> +					strerror(errno));
>> +		} while (ret <= 0);
>> +
>> +		if (pthread_join(tid, &retval)) {
>> +			fprintf(stderr, " pthread join failed: %s\n",
>> +				strerror(errno));
>> +			ret = 1;
>> +			goto err;
>> +		}
>> +
>> +		if (ret >= 0) {
>> +			for (j = 0; j < ret; j ++) {
>> +				if (rbuf[j] != 'a') {
>> +					fprintf(stderr, "encounter an error: "
>> +						"offset %d content %c\n",
>> +						i, rbuf[j]);
> 
> This prints a binary zero on failure, and makes diff harder to view.
> 
> Binary files tests/generic/452.out and /root/workspace/xfstests/results//xfs_4k/generic/452.out.bad differ
> 
> I changed it a bit:
> -                                               "offset %d content %c\n",
> -                                               i, rbuf[j]);
> +                                               "block %d offset %d, content 0x%x\n",
> +                                               i, j, rbuf[j]);
> 
> and the result looked fine to me:
> +encounter an error: block 15 offset 0, content 0x0
> 
>> +					ret = 1;
>> +					goto err;
>> +				}
>> +			}
>> +		}
>> +	}
>> +
>> +err:
>> +	if (rfd)
>> +		close(rfd);
>> +	if (wfd)
>> +		close(wfd);
>> +	if (rbuf)
>> +		free(rbuf);
>> +	if (wbuf)
>> +		free(wbuf);
>> +
>> +	return ret;
>> +}
>> diff --git a/tests/generic/450 b/tests/generic/450
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 0000000..cfb424c
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tests/generic/450
>> @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
>> +#! /bin/bash
>> +# FS QA Test No. 450
>> +#
>> +# Test i_size is updated properly under dio read/write
>> +#
>> +#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +# Copyright (c) 2013 Alibaba Group.  All Rights Reserved.
>> +#
>> +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> +# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> +# published by the Free Software Foundation.
>> +#
>> +# This program is distributed in the hope that it would be useful,
>> +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> +# GNU General Public License for more details.
>> +#
>> +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> +# along with this program; if not, write the Free Software Foundation,
>> +# Inc.,  51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
>> +#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +#
>> +
>> +seq=`basename $0`
>> +seqres=$RESULT_DIR/$seq
>> +echo "QA output created by $seq"
>> +
>> +here=`pwd`
>> +tmp=/tmp/$$
>> +status=1	# failure is the default!
>> +trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
>> +
>> +_cleanup()
>> +{
>> +    cd /
>> +    rm -f $tmp.* $testfile
>> +}
>> +
>> +# get standard environment, filters and checks
>> +. ./common/rc
>> +. ./common/filter
>> +
>> +# real QA test starts here
>> +_supported_fs generic
>> +_supported_os Linux
>> +
>> +testfile=$TEST_DIR/$seq.$$
>> +
>> +[ -x $here/src/diotest ] || _notrun "diotest not built"
> 
> _require_test_program "diotest" or a new name :)
> 
> And need a _require_odirect too.
> 
>> +
>> +$here/src/diotest $testfile # > $seqres.full 2>&1 ||
>> +	# _fail "i_size isn't update properly!"
> 
> All the comments can be removed :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Eryu
> 
>> +
>> +# success, all done
>> +status=0
>> +exit
>> diff --git a/tests/generic/450.out b/tests/generic/450.out
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..734761a
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tests/generic/450.out
>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> +QA output created by 450
>> diff --git a/tests/generic/group b/tests/generic/group
>> index b9cd0e8..a555fa0 100644
>> --- a/tests/generic/group
>> +++ b/tests/generic/group
>> @@ -452,3 +452,4 @@
>>  447 auto quick clone
>>  448 auto quick rw
>>  449 auto quick acl enospc
>> +450 auto rw quick
>>
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