Re: [PATCH 01/11] VFS: show correct dev num in mountinfo

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On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 07:28, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2021, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 08:37:45AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> > > /proc/$PID/mountinfo contains a field for the device number of the
> > > filesystem at each mount.
> > >
> > > This is taken from the superblock ->s_dev field, which is correct for
> > > every filesystem except btrfs.  A btrfs filesystem can contain multiple
> > > subvols which each have a different device number.  If (a directory
> > > within) one of these subvols is mounted, the device number reported in
> > > mountinfo will be different from the device number reported by stat().
> > >
> > > This confuses some libraries and tools such as, historically, findmnt.
> > > Current findmnt seems to cope with the strangeness.
> > >
> > > So instead of using ->s_dev, call vfs_getattr_nosec() and use the ->dev
> > > provided.  As there is no STATX flag to ask for the device number, we
> > > pass a request mask for zero, and also ask the filesystem to avoid
> > > syncing with any remote service.
> >
> > Hard NAK.  You are putting IO (potentially - network IO, with no upper
> > limit on the completion time) under namespace_sem.
>
> Why would IO be generated? The inode must already be in cache because it
> is mounted, and STATX_DONT_SYNC is passed.  If a filesystem did IO in
> those circumstances, it would be broken.

STATX_DONT_SYNC is a hint, and while some network fs do honor it, not all do.

Thanks,
Miklos



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