The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands: git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x a075bacde257f755bea0e53400c9f1cdd1b8e8e6 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to '<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>' --in-reply-to '1680005223233133@xxxxxxxxx' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^.. Possible dependencies: a075bacde257 ("fsverity: don't drop pagecache at end of FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY") thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From a075bacde257f755bea0e53400c9f1cdd1b8e8e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:31:32 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fsverity: don't drop pagecache at end of FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY The full pagecache drop at the end of FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY is causing performance problems and is hindering adoption of fsverity. It was intended to solve a race condition where unverified pages might be left in the pagecache. But actually it doesn't solve it fully. Since the incomplete solution for this race condition has too much performance impact for it to be worth it, let's remove it for now. Fixes: 3fda4c617e84 ("fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230314235332.50270-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/verity/enable.c b/fs/verity/enable.c index e13db6507b38..7a0e3a84d370 100644 --- a/fs/verity/enable.c +++ b/fs/verity/enable.c @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ #include "fsverity_private.h" #include <linux/mount.h> -#include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/sched/signal.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> @@ -367,25 +366,27 @@ int fsverity_ioctl_enable(struct file *filp, const void __user *uarg) goto out_drop_write; err = enable_verity(filp, &arg); - if (err) - goto out_allow_write_access; /* - * Some pages of the file may have been evicted from pagecache after - * being used in the Merkle tree construction, then read into pagecache - * again by another process reading from the file concurrently. Since - * these pages didn't undergo verification against the file digest which - * fs-verity now claims to be enforcing, we have to wipe the pagecache - * to ensure that all future reads are verified. + * We no longer drop the inode's pagecache after enabling verity. This + * used to be done to try to avoid a race condition where pages could be + * evicted after being used in the Merkle tree construction, then + * re-instantiated by a concurrent read. Such pages are unverified, and + * the backing storage could have filled them with different content, so + * they shouldn't be used to fulfill reads once verity is enabled. + * + * But, dropping the pagecache has a big performance impact, and it + * doesn't fully solve the race condition anyway. So for those reasons, + * and also because this race condition isn't very important relatively + * speaking (especially for small-ish files, where the chance of a page + * being used, evicted, *and* re-instantiated all while enabling verity + * is quite small), we no longer drop the inode's pagecache. */ - filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping); - invalidate_inode_pages2(inode->i_mapping); /* * allow_write_access() is needed to pair with deny_write_access(). * Regardless, the filesystem won't allow writing to verity files. */ -out_allow_write_access: allow_write_access(filp); out_drop_write: mnt_drop_write_file(filp);
