Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fail migrate if we allocated new blocks via mmap write.

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On Thu 13-03-08 14:08:07, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> If we write to holes in the file via mmap, we endup allocating
> new blocks. This block allocation happens without taking inode->i_mutex.
> Since migrate is protected by i_mutex and migrate expect no
> new blocks get allocated during migrate, fail migrate if new blocks
> get allocated.
> 
> We can't take inode->i_mutex in the mmap write path because that
> would result in a locking order violation between i_mutex and mmap_sem.
> Also adding a seprate rw_sempahore for protecion is really high overhead
> for a rare operation such as migrate.
  Yes, the patch looks fine. Thanks for all the changes :).

> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  fs/ext4/inode.c         |   17 ++++++++++++-----
>  fs/ext4/migrate.c       |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/linux/ext4_fs.h |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 059f2fc..f947251 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -986,6 +986,16 @@ int ext4_get_blocks_wrap(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, sector_t block,
>  		retval = ext4_get_blocks_handle(handle, inode, block,
>  				max_blocks, bh, create, extend_disksize);
>  	}
> +
> +	if (retval > 0) {
> +		/*
> +		 * We allocated new blocks which will result in i_data
> +		 * format to change.  Force the migrate to fail by
> +		 * clearing migrate flags
> +		 */
> +		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags = EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &
> +							~EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE;
> +	}
>  	up_write((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem));
>  	return retval;
>  }
> @@ -2962,7 +2972,8 @@ static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t *handle,
>  	if (ext4_inode_blocks_set(handle, raw_inode, ei))
>  		goto out_brelse;
>  	raw_inode->i_dtime = cpu_to_le32(ei->i_dtime);
> -	raw_inode->i_flags = cpu_to_le32(ei->i_flags);
> +	/* clear the migrate flag in the raw_inode */
> +	raw_inode->i_flags = cpu_to_le32(ei->i_flags & ~EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE);
>  	if (EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_es->s_creator_os !=
>  	    cpu_to_le32(EXT4_OS_HURD))
>  		raw_inode->i_file_acl_high =
> @@ -3502,9 +3513,5 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page)
>  	 * access and zero out the page. The journal handle get initialized
>  	 * in ext4_get_block.
>  	 */
> -	/* FIXME!! should we take inode->i_mutex ? Currently we can't because
> -	 * it has a circular locking dependency with DIO. But migrate expect
> -	 * i_mutex to ensure no i_data changes
> -	 */
>  	return block_page_mkwrite(vma, page, ext4_get_block);
>  }
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
> index 5c1e27d..f4c9e78 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
> @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ static int free_ind_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, __le32 *i_data)
>  }
>  
>  static int ext4_ext_swap_inode_data(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> -				struct inode *tmp_inode)
> +						struct inode *tmp_inode)
>  {
>  	int retval;
>  	__le32	i_data[3];
> @@ -351,6 +351,18 @@ static int ext4_ext_swap_inode_data(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  
>  	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
>  	/*
> +	 * if EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE is cleared a block allocation
> +	 * happened after we started the migrate. We need to
> +	 * fail the migrate
> +	 */
> +	if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE)) {
> +		retval = -EAGAIN;
> +		up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
> +		goto err_out;
> +	} else
> +		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags = EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &
> +							~EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE;
> +	/*
>  	 * We have the extent map build with the tmp inode.
>  	 * Now copy the i_data across
>  	 */
> @@ -508,6 +520,17 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
>  	 * switch the inode format to prevent read.
>  	 */
>  	mutex_lock(&(inode->i_mutex));
> +	/*
> +	 * Even though we take i_mutex we can still cause block allocation
> +	 * via mmap write to holes. If we have allocated new blocks we fail
> +	 * migrate. New block allocation will clear EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE flag
> +	 * The flag is updated with i_data_sem held to prevent racing with
> +	 * block allocation.
> +	 */
> +	down_read((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem));
> +	EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags = EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags | EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE;
> +	up_read((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem));
> +
>  	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, 1);
>  
>  	ei = EXT4_I(inode);
> @@ -560,8 +583,7 @@ err_out:
>  		 */
>  		free_ext_block(handle, tmp_inode);
>  	else
> -		retval = ext4_ext_swap_inode_data(handle, inode,
> -							tmp_inode);
> +		retval = ext4_ext_swap_inode_data(handle, inode, tmp_inode);
>  
>  	/* We mark the tmp_inode dirty via ext4_ext_tree_init. */
>  	if (ext4_journal_extend(handle, 1) != 0)
> diff --git a/include/linux/ext4_fs.h b/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
> index 8f5a563..2d15f16 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
> @@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ struct flex_groups {
>  #define EXT4_TOPDIR_FL			0x00020000 /* Top of directory hierarchies*/
>  #define EXT4_HUGE_FILE_FL               0x00040000 /* Set to each huge file */
>  #define EXT4_EXTENTS_FL			0x00080000 /* Inode uses extents */
> +#define EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE		0x00100000 /* Inode is migrating */
>  #define EXT4_RESERVED_FL		0x80000000 /* reserved for ext4 lib */
>  
>  #define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE		0x000BDFFF /* User visible flags */
> -- 
> 1.5.4.4.532.ga6828.dirty
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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