On 10.01.2019 14:00, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:48 AM Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Miklos,
>>
>> any comments about this?
>
> Is there a reproducer? ISTR that fsx-linux with mmaps enabled was
> good for stressing the writeback_cache code.
There is no a reproducer, since I found that by eyes during preparation of another patchset.
>>
>> On 26.11.2018 12:46, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>>> Checking for FR_PENDING in fuse_writepage_in_flight() is racy.
>>> It does not guarantee the first request in misc.write.next list
>>> is not in userspace, since there we take fc->lock, while
>>> fuse_dev_do_read() takes fiq->waitq.lock:
>>>
>>> fuse_dev_read() fuse_writepage_in_flight()
>>> test_bit(FR_PENDING)
>>> clear_bit(FR_PENDING)
>>> handle old_req->pages[0] in userspace
>>> copy_highpage(old_req->pages[0], page)
>>> ^^^^^
>>> userspace never sees this pages
>>>
>>> The only reliable way to determ, whether we are able to replace
>>> old_req's page, is to completely skip the first request in the list.
>>> This patch makes the function to do that.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> fs/fuse/file.c | 4 +++-
>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
>>> index b52f9baaa3e7..c6650c68b31a 100644
>>> --- a/fs/fuse/file.c
>>> +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
>>> @@ -1740,6 +1740,7 @@ static bool fuse_writepage_in_flight(struct fuse_req *new_req,
>>> {
>>> struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn(new_req->inode);
>>> struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(new_req->inode);
>>> + struct fuse_req *first_req;
>>> struct fuse_req *tmp;
>>> struct fuse_req *old_req;
>>> bool found = false;
>>> @@ -1764,6 +1765,7 @@ static bool fuse_writepage_in_flight(struct fuse_req *new_req,
>>> }
>>>
>>> new_req->num_pages = 1;
>>> + first_req = old_req;
>>> for (tmp = old_req; tmp != NULL; tmp = tmp->misc.write.next) {
>>> BUG_ON(tmp->inode != new_req->inode);
>>> curr_index = tmp->misc.write.in.offset >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>> @@ -1773,7 +1775,7 @@ static bool fuse_writepage_in_flight(struct fuse_req *new_req,
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> - if (old_req->num_pages == 1 && test_bit(FR_PENDING, &old_req->flags)) {
>>> + if (old_req->num_pages == 1 && old_req != first_req) {
>>> struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(page->mapping->host);
>>>
>>> copy_highpage(old_req->pages[0], page);
>>>
