Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] mm/migrate: skip migrating folios under writeback with AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE mappings

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On 12/19/24 18:55, Joanne Koong wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 9:26 AM David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 19.12.24 18:14, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 05:41:36PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> On 19.12.24 17:40, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 05:29:08PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you check the code just above this patch, this
>>>>>>> mapping_writeback_indeterminate() check only happen for pages under
>>>>>>> writeback which is a temp state. Anyways, fuse folios should not be
>>>>>>> unmovable for their lifetime but only while under writeback which is
>>>>>>> same for all fs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But there, writeback is expected to be a temporary thing, not possibly:
>>>>>> "AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE", that is a BIG difference.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll have to NACK anything that violates ZONE_MOVABLE / ALLOC_CMA
>>>>>> guarantees, and unfortunately, it sounds like this is the case here, unless
>>>>>> I am missing something important.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It might just be the name "AS_WRITEBACK_INDETERMINATE" is causing
>>>>> the confusion. The writeback state is not indefinite. A proper fuse fs,
>>>>> like anyother fs, should handle writeback pages appropriately. These
>>>>> additional checks and skips are for (I think) untrusted fuse servers.
>>>>
>>>> Can unprivileged user space provoke this case?
>>>
>>> Let's ask Joanne and other fuse folks about the above question.
>>>
>>> Let's say unprivileged user space can start a untrusted fuse server,
>>> mount fuse, allocate and dirty a lot of fuse folios (within its dirty
>>> and memcg limits) and trigger the writeback. To cause pain (through
>>> fragmentation), it is not clearing the writeback state. Is this the
>>> scenario you are envisioning?
>>
> 
> This scenario can already happen with temp pages. An untrusted
> malicious fuse server may allocate and dirty a lot of fuse folios
> within its dirty/memcg limits and never clear writeback on any of them
> and tie up system resources. This certainly isn't the common case, but
> it is a possibility. However, request timeouts can be set by the
> system admin [1] to protect against malicious/buggy fuse servers that
> try to do this. If the request isn't replied to by a certain amount of
> time, then the connection will be aborted and writeback state and
> other resources will be cleared/freed.
> 

I think what Zi points out that that is a current implementation issue
and these temp pages should be in a continues range. 
Obviously better to avoid a tmp copy at all.


Thanks,
Bernd






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