Re: [PATCH V2] xfs: properly serialise fallocate against AIO+DIO

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 09:37:52AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> AIO+DIO can extend the file size on IO completion, and it holds
> no inode locks while the IO is in flight. Therefore, a race
> condition exists in file size updates if we do something like this:
> 
> aio-thread			fallocate-thread
> 
> lock inode
> submit IO beyond inode->i_size
> unlock inode
> .....
> 				lock inode
> 				break layouts
> 				if (off + len > inode->i_size)
> 					new_size = off + len
> 				.....
> 				inode_dio_wait()
> 				<blocks>
> .....
> completes
> inode->i_size updated
> inode_dio_done()
> ....
> 				<wakes>
> 				<does stuff no long beyond EOF>
> 				if (new_size)
> 					xfs_vn_setattr(inode, new_size)
> 
> 
> Yup, that attempt to extend the file size in the fallocate code
> turns into a truncate - it removes the whatever the aio write
> allocated and put to disk, and reduced the inode size back down to
> where the fallocate operation ends.
> 
> Fundamentally, xfs_file_fallocate()  not compatible with racing
> AIO+DIO completions, so we need to move the inode_dio_wait() call
> up to where the lock the inode and break the layouts.
> 
> Secondly, storing the inode size and then using it unchecked without
> holding the ILOCK is not safe; we can only do such a thing if we've
> locked out and drained all IO and other modification operations,
> which we don't do initially in xfs_file_fallocate.
> 
> It should be noted that some of the fallocate operations are
> compound operations - they are made up of multiple manipulations
> that may zero data, and so we may need to flush and invalidate the
> file multiple times during an operation. However, we only need to
> lock out IO and other space manipulation operations once, as that
> lockout is maintained until the entire fallocate operation has been
> completed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c |  8 +-------
>  fs/xfs/xfs_file.c      | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c     |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> index fb31d7d6701e..dea68308fb64 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> @@ -1040,6 +1040,7 @@ xfs_unmap_extent(
>  	goto out_unlock;
>  }
>  
> +/* Caller must first wait for the completion of any pending DIOs if required. */
>  int
>  xfs_flush_unmap_range(
>  	struct xfs_inode	*ip,
> @@ -1051,9 +1052,6 @@ xfs_flush_unmap_range(
>  	xfs_off_t		rounding, start, end;
>  	int			error;
>  
> -	/* wait for the completion of any pending DIOs */
> -	inode_dio_wait(inode);
> -
>  	rounding = max_t(xfs_off_t, 1 << mp->m_sb.sb_blocklog, PAGE_SIZE);
>  	start = round_down(offset, rounding);
>  	end = round_up(offset + len, rounding) - 1;
> @@ -1085,10 +1083,6 @@ xfs_free_file_space(
>  	if (len <= 0)	/* if nothing being freed */
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	error = xfs_flush_unmap_range(ip, offset, len);
> -	if (error)
> -		return error;
> -
>  	startoffset_fsb = XFS_B_TO_FSB(mp, offset);
>  	endoffset_fsb = XFS_B_TO_FSBT(mp, offset + len);
>  
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> index 525b29b99116..46fc5629369b 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> @@ -817,6 +817,29 @@ xfs_file_fallocate(
>  	if (error)
>  		goto out_unlock;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Must wait for all AIO to complete before we continue as AIO can
> +	 * change the file size on completion without holding any locks we
> +	 * currently hold. We must do this first because AIO can update both
> +	 * the on disk and in memory inode sizes, and the operations that follow
> +	 * require the in-memory size to be fully up-to-date.
> +	 */
> +	inode_dio_wait(inode);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Now that AIO and DIO has drained we can flush and (if necessary)
> +	 * invalidate the cached range over the first operation we are about to
> +	 * run. We include zero and collapse here because they both start with a
> +	 * hole punch over the target range. Insert and collapse both invalidate
> +	 * the broader range affected by the shift in xfs_prepare_shift().
> +	 */
> +	if (mode & (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE |
> +		    FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE)) {
> +		error = xfs_flush_unmap_range(ip, offset, len);
> +		if (error)
> +			goto out_unlock;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (mode & FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) {
>  		error = xfs_free_file_space(ip, offset, len);
>  		if (error)
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
> index 287f83eb791f..800f07044636 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
> @@ -623,6 +623,7 @@ xfs_ioc_space(
>  	error = xfs_break_layouts(inode, &iolock, BREAK_UNMAP);
>  	if (error)
>  		goto out_unlock;
> +	inode_dio_wait(inode);
>  
>  	switch (bf->l_whence) {
>  	case 0: /*SEEK_SET*/
> -- 
> 2.24.0.rc0
> 





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