This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled afs: Fix speculative status fetch going out of order wrt to modifications to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: afs-fix-speculative-status-fetch-going-out-of-order-.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 56a608c84ca59a5a66106fee30d80ea9622bef5b Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Nov 22 13:13:45 2020 +0000 afs: Fix speculative status fetch going out of order wrt to modifications [ Upstream commit a9e5c87ca7443d09fb530fffa4d96ce1c76dbe4d ] When doing a lookup in a directory, the afs filesystem uses a bulk status fetch to speculatively retrieve the statuses of up to 48 other vnodes found in the same directory and it will then either update extant inodes or create new ones - effectively doing 'lookup ahead'. To avoid the possibility of deadlocking itself, however, the filesystem doesn't lock all of those inodes; rather just the directory inode is locked (by the VFS). When the operation completes, afs_inode_init_from_status() or afs_apply_status() is called, depending on whether the inode already exists, to commit the new status. A case exists, however, where the speculative status fetch operation may straddle a modification operation on one of those vnodes. What can then happen is that the speculative bulk status RPC retrieves the old status, and whilst that is happening, the modification happens - which returns an updated status, then the modification status is committed, then we attempt to commit the speculative status. This results in something like the following being seen in dmesg: kAFS: vnode modified {100058:861} 8->9 YFS.InlineBulkStatus showing that for vnode 861 on volume 100058, we saw YFS.InlineBulkStatus say that the vnode had data version 8 when we'd already recorded version 9 due to a local modification. This was causing the cache to be invalidated for that vnode when it shouldn't have been. If it happens on a data file, this might lead to local changes being lost. Fix this by ignoring speculative status updates if the data version doesn't match the expected value. Note that it is possible to get a DV regression if a volume gets restored from a backup - but we should get a callback break in such a case that should trigger a recheck anyway. It might be worth checking the volume creation time in the volsync info and, if a change is observed in that (as would happen on a restore), invalidate all caches associated with the volume. Fixes: 5cf9dd55a0ec ("afs: Prospectively look up extra files when doing a single lookup") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c index 1bb5b9d7f0a2c..9068d5578a26f 100644 --- a/fs/afs/dir.c +++ b/fs/afs/dir.c @@ -823,6 +823,7 @@ static struct inode *afs_do_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, vp->cb_break_before = afs_calc_vnode_cb_break(vnode); vp->vnode = vnode; vp->put_vnode = true; + vp->speculative = true; /* vnode not locked */ } } } diff --git a/fs/afs/inode.c b/fs/afs/inode.c index 0fe8844b4bee2..b0d7b892090da 100644 --- a/fs/afs/inode.c +++ b/fs/afs/inode.c @@ -294,6 +294,13 @@ void afs_vnode_commit_status(struct afs_operation *op, struct afs_vnode_param *v op->flags &= ~AFS_OPERATION_DIR_CONFLICT; } } else if (vp->scb.have_status) { + if (vp->dv_before + vp->dv_delta != vp->scb.status.data_version && + vp->speculative) + /* Ignore the result of a speculative bulk status fetch + * if it splits around a modification op, thereby + * appearing to regress the data version. + */ + goto out; afs_apply_status(op, vp); if (vp->scb.have_cb) afs_apply_callback(op, vp); @@ -305,6 +312,7 @@ void afs_vnode_commit_status(struct afs_operation *op, struct afs_vnode_param *v } } +out: write_sequnlock(&vnode->cb_lock); if (vp->scb.have_status) diff --git a/fs/afs/internal.h b/fs/afs/internal.h index 17336cbb8419f..932f501888e73 100644 --- a/fs/afs/internal.h +++ b/fs/afs/internal.h @@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ struct afs_vnode_param { bool update_ctime:1; /* Need to update the ctime */ bool set_size:1; /* Must update i_size */ bool op_unlinked:1; /* True if file was unlinked by op */ + bool speculative:1; /* T if speculative status fetch (no vnode lock) */ }; /*