On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 08:10:49PM +0200, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: > A user running a Haskell program [1] noticed a problem with fuse's > readdirplus: when it is interrupted by a signal, it skips one > directory entry. > > The problem is most apparent with Haskell as it uses > SIGVTALRM to interrupt it's own green threads. > > A minimal reproducer in C, "ls-count.c", is available [2]. The problem > has been reproduced against libfuse's "passthrough_fh.c", but also against > gocryptfs, which uses go-fuse instead of libfuse. This suggest > that the bug is in kernel-space, which also the opinion of libfuse > upstream [3]. > > What "ls-count.c" does is that it loops over readdir while sending itself > SIGVTALRM. When the count of directory entries changes, it exits: > > $ ./ls-count b > ls-count: counts do not match: 2 vs 1 > > strace against ls-count shows that we get one entry, when we should get > two ("." and ".."): > > getdents(3, /* 1 entries */, 32768) = 24 > --- SIGVTALRM --- > rt_sigreturn({mask=[]}) = 24 > getdents(3, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 > > The debug output from go-fuse [4] shows what seems to be happening: > > Dispatch 548: READDIRPLUS, NodeId: 1. data: {Fh 3 off 0 sz 4096} > Serialize 548: READDIRPLUS code: OK value: 320 bytes data > Dispatch 549: READDIRPLUS, NodeId: 1. data: {Fh 3 off 2 sz 4096} > Serialize 549: READDIRPLUS code: OK value: > > The kernel starts reading the directory from "off 0", where it is > interrupted, and only returns one entry to userspace. Then it continues > reading at "off 2". Offset 1 is skipped. > > I can reliably reproduce this within 1 second against kernel 4.12.5. Thanks for the report. The patch below should fix it. Thanks, Miklos --- From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fuse: fix READDIRPLUS skipping an entry A user running a Haskell program noticed a problem with fuse's readdirplus: when it is interrupted by a signal, it skips one directory entry. The reason is that fuse erronously updates ctx->pos after a failed dir_emit(). The issue originates from the patch adding readdirplus support. Reported-by: Jakob Unterwurzacher <jakobunt@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 0b05b18381ee ("fuse: implement NFS-like readdirplus support") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.9 --- fs/fuse/dir.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/fuse/dir.c +++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c @@ -1308,7 +1308,8 @@ static int parse_dirplusfile(char *buf, */ over = !dir_emit(ctx, dirent->name, dirent->namelen, dirent->ino, dirent->type); - ctx->pos = dirent->off; + if (!over) + ctx->pos = dirent->off; } buf += reclen;