Re: [PATCH 5/9] xfs: buffered write failure should not truncate the page cache

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 12:30:39PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> xfs_buffered_write_iomap_end() currently invalidates the page cache
> over the unused range of the delalloc extent it allocated. While the
> write allocated the delalloc extent, it does not own it exclusively
> as the write does not hold any locks that prevent either writeback
> or mmap page faults from changing the state of either the page cache
> or the extent state backing this range.
> 
> Whilst xfs_bmap_punch_delalloc_range() already handles races in
> extent conversion - it will only punch out delalloc extents and it
> ignores any other type of extent - the page cache truncate does not
> discriminate between data written by this write or some other task.
> As a result, truncating the page cache can result in data corruption
> if the write races with mmap modifications to the file over the same
> range.
> 
> generic/346 exercises this workload, and if we randomly fail writes
> (as will happen when iomap gets stale iomap detection later in the
> patchset), it will randomly corrupt the file data because it removes
> data written by mmap() in the same page as the write() that failed.
> 
> Hence we do not want to punch out the page cache over the range of
> the extent we failed to write to - what we actually need to do is
> detect the ranges that have dirty data in cache over them and *not
> punch them out*.
> 
> TO do this, we have to walk the page cache over the range of the
> delalloc extent we want to remove. This is made complex by the fact
> we have to handle partially up-to-date folios correctly and this can
> happen even when the FSB size == PAGE_SIZE because we now support
> multi-page folios in the page cache.
> 
> Because we are only interested in discovering the edges of data
> ranges in the page cache (i.e. hole-data boundaries) we can make use
> of mapping_seek_hole_data() to find those transitions in the page
> cache. As we hold the invalidate_lock, we know that the boundaries
> are not going to change while we walk the range. This interface is
> also byte-based and is sub-page block aware, so we can find the data
> ranges in the cache based on byte offsets rather than page, folio or
> fs block sized chunks. This greatly simplifies the logic of finding
> dirty cached ranges in the page cache.
> 
> Once we've identified a range that contains cached data, we can then
> iterate the range folio by folio. This allows us to determine if the
> data is dirty and hence perform the correct delalloc extent punching
> operations. The seek interface we use to iterate data ranges will
> give us sub-folio start/end granularity, so we may end up looking up
> the same folio multiple times as the seek interface iterates across
> each discontiguous data region in the folio.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 141 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> index 7bb55dbc19d3..2d48fcc7bd6f 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
> @@ -1134,6 +1134,146 @@ xfs_buffered_write_delalloc_punch(
>  				end_fsb - start_fsb);
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Scan the data range passed to us for dirty page cache folios. If we find a
> + * dirty folio, punch out the preceeding range and update the offset from which
> + * the next punch will start from.
> + *
> + * We can punch out clean pages because they either contain data that has been
> + * written back - in which case the delalloc punch over that range is a no-op -
> + * or they have been read faults in which case they contain zeroes and we can
> + * remove the delalloc backing range and any new writes to those pages will do
> + * the normal hole filling operation...
> + *
> + * This makes the logic simple: we only need to keep the delalloc extents only
> + * over the dirty ranges of the page cache.
> + */
> +static int
> +xfs_buffered_write_delalloc_scan(
> +	struct inode		*inode,
> +	loff_t			*punch_start_byte,
> +	loff_t			start_byte,
> +	loff_t			end_byte)
> +{
> +	loff_t			offset = start_byte;
> +
> +	while (offset < end_byte) {
> +		struct folio	*folio;
> +
> +		/* grab locked page */
> +		folio = filemap_lock_folio(inode->i_mapping, offset >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> +		if (!folio) {
> +			offset = ALIGN_DOWN(offset, PAGE_SIZE) + PAGE_SIZE;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
> +		/* if dirty, punch up to offset */
> +		if (folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
> +			if (offset > *punch_start_byte) {
> +				int	error;
> +
> +				error = xfs_buffered_write_delalloc_punch(inode,
> +						*punch_start_byte, offset);

This sounds an awful lot like what iomap_writeback_ops.discard_folio()
does, albeit without the xfs_alert screaming everywhere.

Moving along... so we punch out delalloc reservations for any part of
the page cache that is clean.  "punch_start_byte" is the start pos of
the last range of clean cache, and we want to punch up to the start of
this dirty folio...

> +				if (error) {
> +					folio_unlock(folio);
> +					folio_put(folio);
> +					return error;
> +				}
> +			}
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * Make sure the next punch start is correctly bound to
> +			 * the end of this data range, not the end of the folio.
> +			 */
> +			*punch_start_byte = min_t(loff_t, end_byte,
> +					folio_next_index(folio) << PAGE_SHIFT);

...and then start a new clean range after this folio (or at the end_byte
to signal that we're done)...

> +		}
> +
> +		/* move offset to start of next folio in range */
> +		offset = folio_next_index(folio) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +		folio_unlock(folio);
> +		folio_put(folio);
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Punch out all the delalloc blocks in the range given except for those that
> + * have dirty data still pending in the page cache - those are going to be
> + * written and so must still retain the delalloc backing for writeback.
> + *
> + * As we are scanning the page cache for data, we don't need to reimplement the
> + * wheel - mapping_seek_hole_data() does exactly what we need to identify the
> + * start and end of data ranges correctly even for sub-folio block sizes. This
> + * byte range based iteration is especially convenient because it means we don't
> + * have to care about variable size folios, nor where the start or end of the
> + * data range lies within a folio, if they lie within the same folio or even if
> + * there are multiple discontiguous data ranges within the folio.
> + */
> +static int
> +xfs_buffered_write_delalloc_release(
> +	struct inode		*inode,
> +	loff_t			start_byte,
> +	loff_t			end_byte)
> +{
> +	loff_t			punch_start_byte = start_byte;
> +	int			error = 0;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Lock the mapping to avoid races with page faults re-instantiating
> +	 * folios and dirtying them via ->page_mkwrite whilst we walk the
> +	 * cache and perform delalloc extent removal. Failing to do this can
> +	 * leave dirty pages with no space reservation in the cache.
> +	 */
> +	filemap_invalidate_lock(inode->i_mapping);
> +	while (start_byte < end_byte) {
> +		loff_t		data_end;
> +
> +		start_byte = mapping_seek_hole_data(inode->i_mapping,
> +				start_byte, end_byte, SEEK_DATA);
> +		/*
> +		 * If there is no more data to scan, all that is left is to
> +		 * punch out the remaining range.
> +		 */
> +		if (start_byte == -ENXIO || start_byte == end_byte)
> +			break;
> +		if (start_byte < 0) {
> +			error = start_byte;
> +			goto out_unlock;
> +		}
> +		ASSERT(start_byte >= punch_start_byte);
> +		ASSERT(start_byte < end_byte);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * We find the end of this contiguous cached data range by
> +		 * seeking from start_byte to the beginning of the next hole.
> +		 */
> +		data_end = mapping_seek_hole_data(inode->i_mapping, start_byte,
> +				end_byte, SEEK_HOLE);
> +		if (data_end < 0) {
> +			error = data_end;
> +			goto out_unlock;
> +		}
> +		ASSERT(data_end > start_byte);
> +		ASSERT(data_end <= end_byte);
> +
> +		error = xfs_buffered_write_delalloc_scan(inode,
> +				&punch_start_byte, start_byte, data_end);

...and we use SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA to find the ranges of pagecache where
there's even going to be folios mapped.  But in structuring the code
like this, xfs now has to know details about folio state again, and the
point of iomap/buffered-io.c is to delegate handling of the pagecache
away from XFS, at least for filesystems that want to manage buffered IO
the same way XFS does.

IOWs, I agree with Christoph that these two functions that compute the
ranges that need delalloc-punching really ought to be in the iomap code.
TBH I wonder if this isn't better suited for being called by
iomap_write_iter after a short write on an IOMAP_F_NEW iomap, with an
function pointer in iomap page_ops for iomap to tell xfs to drop the
delalloc reservations.

--D

> +		if (error)
> +			goto out_unlock;
> +
> +		/* The next data search starts at the end of this one. */
> +		start_byte = data_end;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (punch_start_byte <1 end_byte)
> +		error = xfs_buffered_write_delalloc_punch(inode,
> +				punch_start_byte, end_byte);
> +out_unlock:
> +	filemap_invalidate_unlock(inode->i_mapping);
> +	return error;
> +}
> +
>  static int
>  xfs_buffered_write_iomap_end(
>  	struct inode		*inode,
> @@ -1179,16 +1319,7 @@ xfs_buffered_write_iomap_end(
>  	if (start_byte >= end_byte)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Lock the mapping to avoid races with page faults re-instantiating
> -	 * folios and dirtying them via ->page_mkwrite between the page cache
> -	 * truncation and the delalloc extent removal. Failing to do this can
> -	 * leave dirty pages with no space reservation in the cache.
> -	 */
> -	filemap_invalidate_lock(inode->i_mapping);
> -	truncate_pagecache_range(inode, start_byte, end_byte - 1);
> -	error = xfs_buffered_write_delalloc_punch(inode, start_byte, end_byte);
> -	filemap_invalidate_unlock(inode->i_mapping);
> +	error = xfs_buffered_write_delalloc_release(inode, start_byte, end_byte);
>  	if (error && !xfs_is_shutdown(mp)) {
>  		xfs_alert(mp, "%s: unable to clean up ino 0x%llx",
>  			__func__, XFS_I(inode)->i_ino);
> -- 
> 2.37.2
> 




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