Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] NFSD: Return both a hole and a data segment

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On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 04:24:00PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 12:51:38PM -0400, Anna Schumaker wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:49 PM J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I think there's still a race here:
> > >
> > >         vfs_llseek(.,0,SEEK_HOLE) returns 1024
> > >         read 1024 bytes of data
> > >                                         another process fills the hole
> > >         vfs_llseek(.,1024,SEEK_DATA) returns 1024
> > >         code above returns nfserr_resource
> > >
> > > We end up returning an error to the client when we should have just
> > > returned more data.
> > 
> > As long as we've encoded at least one segment successfully, we'll
> > actually return a short read in this case (as of the most recent
> > patches). I tried implementing a check for what each segment actually
> > was before encoding, but it lead to a lot of extra lseeks (so
> > potential for races / performance problems on btrfs). Returning a
> > short read seemed like a better approach to me.
> 
> Argh, right, I forgot the "if (nfserr && segments == 0)" at the end of
> nfsd4_encode_read_plus().

(Oops, it's actually the "if (nfserr)" below that handles that case.)

> It's still possible to get a spurious error return if this happens at
> the very start of the READ_PLUS, though.  Hm.  Might be better to just
> encode another data segment?

So, I mean, if nfsd4_encode_read_plus_hole() doesn't find a hole after
all, just keep going, and create a data segment.

--b.

> 
> --b.
> 
> > 
> > Anna
> > 
> > >
> > > --b.
> > >
> > > > +     count = data_pos - read->rd_offset;
> > > > +
> > > >       /* Content type, offset, byte count */
> > > >       p = xdr_reserve_space(&resp->xdr, 4 + 8 + 8);
> > > >       if (!p)
> > > > @@ -4654,9 +4662,10 @@ nfsd4_encode_read_plus_hole(struct nfsd4_compoundres *resp,
> > > >
> > > >       *p++ = htonl(NFS4_CONTENT_HOLE);
> > > >        p   = xdr_encode_hyper(p, read->rd_offset);
> > > > -      p   = xdr_encode_hyper(p, maxcount);
> > > > +      p   = xdr_encode_hyper(p, count);
> > > >
> > > > -     *eof = (read->rd_offset + maxcount) >= i_size_read(file_inode(file));
> > > > +     *eof = (read->rd_offset + count) >= i_size_read(file_inode(file));
> > > > +     *maxcount = min_t(unsigned long, count, *maxcount);
> > > >       return nfs_ok;
> > > >  }
> > > >
> > > > @@ -4664,7 +4673,7 @@ static __be32
> > > >  nfsd4_encode_read_plus(struct nfsd4_compoundres *resp, __be32 nfserr,
> > > >                      struct nfsd4_read *read)
> > > >  {
> > > > -     unsigned long maxcount;
> > > > +     unsigned long maxcount, count;
> > > >       struct xdr_stream *xdr = &resp->xdr;
> > > >       struct file *file;
> > > >       int starting_len = xdr->buf->len;
> > > > @@ -4687,6 +4696,7 @@ nfsd4_encode_read_plus(struct nfsd4_compoundres *resp, __be32 nfserr,
> > > >       maxcount = min_t(unsigned long, maxcount,
> > > >                        (xdr->buf->buflen - xdr->buf->len));
> > > >       maxcount = min_t(unsigned long, maxcount, read->rd_length);
> > > > +     count    = maxcount;
> > > >
> > > >       eof = read->rd_offset >= i_size_read(file_inode(file));
> > > >       if (eof)
> > > > @@ -4695,24 +4705,38 @@ nfsd4_encode_read_plus(struct nfsd4_compoundres *resp, __be32 nfserr,
> > > >       pos = vfs_llseek(file, read->rd_offset, SEEK_DATA);
> > > >       if (pos == -ENXIO)
> > > >               pos = i_size_read(file_inode(file));
> > > > +     else if (pos < 0)
> > > > +             pos = read->rd_offset;
> > > >
> > > > -     if (pos > read->rd_offset) {
> > > > -             maxcount = pos - read->rd_offset;
> > > > -             nfserr = nfsd4_encode_read_plus_hole(resp, read, maxcount, &eof);
> > > > +     if (pos == read->rd_offset) {
> > > > +             maxcount = count;
> > > > +             nfserr = nfsd4_encode_read_plus_data(resp, read, &maxcount, &eof);
> > > > +             if (nfserr)
> > > > +                     goto out;
> > > > +             count -= maxcount;
> > > > +             read->rd_offset += maxcount;
> > > >               segments++;
> > > > -     } else {
> > > > -             nfserr = nfsd4_encode_read_plus_data(resp, read, maxcount, &eof);
> > > > +     }
> > > > +
> > > > +     if (count > 0 && !eof) {
> > > > +             maxcount = count;
> > > > +             nfserr = nfsd4_encode_read_plus_hole(resp, read, &maxcount, &eof);
> > > > +             if (nfserr)
> > > > +                     goto out;
> > > > +             count -= maxcount;
> > > > +             read->rd_offset += maxcount;
> > > >               segments++;
> > > >       }
> > > >
> > > >  out:
> > > > -     if (nfserr)
> > > > +     if (nfserr && segments == 0)
> > > >               xdr_truncate_encode(xdr, starting_len);
> > > >       else {
> > > >               tmp = htonl(eof);
> > > >               write_bytes_to_xdr_buf(xdr->buf, starting_len,     &tmp, 4);
> > > >               tmp = htonl(segments);
> > > >               write_bytes_to_xdr_buf(xdr->buf, starting_len + 4, &tmp, 4);
> > > > +             nfserr = nfs_ok;
> > > >       }
> > > >
> > > >       return nfserr;
> > > > --
> > > > 2.28.0
> > > >
> > >



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