Re: [PATCH v9 08/15] ovl: Copy up only metadata during copy up where it makes sense

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On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:35:09AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > If it makes sense to copy up only metadata during copy up, do it. This
>> > is done for regular files which are not opened for WRITE and have origin
>> > being saved.
>> >
>> > Right now ->metacopy is set to 0 always. Last patch in the series will
>> > remove the hard coded statement and enable metacopy feature.
>> >
>> > Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>> >  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
>> > index 31711edf5bde..c5804b87f3c7 100644
>> > --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
>> > +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
>> > @@ -232,6 +232,26 @@ int ovl_set_attr(struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
>> >         return err;
>> >  }
>> >
>> > +static bool ovl_need_meta_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
>> > +                                 int flags)
>> > +{
>> > +       struct ovl_fs *ofs = dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info;
>> > +
>> > +       /* TODO: Will enable metacopy in last patch of series */
>> > +       return false;
>> > +
>> > +       if (!ofs->config.metacopy)
>> > +               return false;
>> > +
>> > +       if (!S_ISREG(mode))
>> > +               return false;
>> > +
>> > +       if (flags && ((OPEN_FMODE(flags) & FMODE_WRITE) || (flags & O_TRUNC)))
>> > +               return false;
>> > +
>> > +       return true;
>> > +}
>> > +
>> >  struct ovl_fh *ovl_encode_fh(struct dentry *lower, bool is_upper)
>> >  {
>> >         struct ovl_fh *fh;
>> > @@ -305,11 +325,8 @@ static int ovl_set_origin(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *lower,
>> >                         return PTR_ERR(fh);
>> >         }
>> >
>> > -       /*
>> > -        * Do not fail when upper doesn't support xattrs.
>> > -        */
>> >         err = ovl_check_setxattr(dentry, upper, OVL_XATTR_ORIGIN, fh,
>> > -                                fh ? fh->len : 0, 0);
>> > +                                fh ? fh->len : 0, -EOPNOTSUPP);
>> >         kfree(fh);
>> >
>> >         return err;
>> > @@ -326,6 +343,7 @@ struct ovl_copy_up_ctx {
>> >         struct qstr destname;
>> >         struct dentry *workdir;
>> >         bool tmpfile;
>> > +       bool metacopy;
>> >  };
>> >
>> >  static int ovl_link_up(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
>> > @@ -453,10 +471,14 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_inode(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c, struct dentry *temp)
>> >          *
>> >          */
>> >         err = ovl_set_origin(c->dentry, c->lowerpath.dentry, temp);
>> > -       if (err)
>> > -               return err;
>> > +       if (err) {
>> > +               if (err != -EOPNOTSUPP)
>> > +                       return err;
>> > +               /* Upper does not support xattr. Copy up data as well */
>> > +               c->metacopy = false;
>>
>> Isn't this supposed to be checked in ovl_get_super()?
>
> Hi Miklos,
>
> Right. I think I was confused by code in ovl_check_setxattr().
>
> int ovl_check_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *upperdentry,
>                        const char *name, const void *value, size_t size,
>                        int xerr)
> {
>         int err;
>         struct ovl_fs *ofs = dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info;
>
>         if (ofs->noxattr)
>                 return xerr;
>
>         err = ovl_do_setxattr(upperdentry, name, value, size, 0);
>
>         if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
>                 pr_warn("overlayfs: cannot set %s xattr on upper\n", name);
>                 ofs->noxattr = true;
>                 return xerr;
>         }
>
>         return err;
> }
>
> ofs->noxattr will be set at mount time. Still we check for -EOPNOTSUPP
> and set ofs->noxattr again. Is there a situation where this can happen.
> Is it intentional. Can we get rid of this code.
>
> To take care of this situation, I put that code. That is at mount time
> xattr was fine and hence ofs->noxattr=false. But later somehow we
> encountered -EOPNOTSUPP while doing ovl_set_origin(). Current code
> does not fail copy up operation and I tried to retain same behavior.
> That is just disable metacopy in such case but continue.
>
> So if we don't expect all this to happen at all, then I can get rid
> of this -EOPNOTSUPP check both from ovl_check_setxattr() as well
> as ovl_copy_up_inode().

It would be really weird to encounter this, so I think possibly a
WARN_ON(err == -EOPNOTSUPP) is enough to make sure reality matches our
expectations.

Thanks,
Miklos
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