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[v2,00/25] fs: fixes for serious clone/dedupe problems

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Darrick J. Wong Oct. 10, 2018, 12:10 a.m. UTC
Hi all,

Dave, Eric, and I have been chasing a stale data exposure bug in the XFS
reflink implementation, and tracked it down to reflink forgetting to do
some of the file-extending activities that must happen for regular
writes.

We then started auditing the clone, dedupe, and copyfile code and
realized that from a file contents perspective, clonerange isn't any
different from a regular file write.  Unfortunately, we also noticed
that *unlike* a regular write, clonerange skips a ton of overflow
checks, such as validating the ranges against s_maxbytes, MAX_NON_LFS,
and RLIMIT_FSIZE.  We also observed that cloning into a file did not
strip security privileges (suid, capabilities) like a regular write
would.  I also noticed that xfs and ocfs2 need to dump the page cache
before remapping blocks, not after.

In fixing the range checking problems I also realized that both dedupe
and copyfile tell userspace how much of the requested operation was
acted upon.  Since the range validation can shorten a clone request (or
we can ENOSPC midway through), we might as well plumb the short
operation reporting back through the VFS indirection code to userspace.

So, here's the whole giant pile of patches[1] that fix all the problems.
The patch "generic: test reflink side effects" recently sent to fstests
exercises the fixes in this series.  Tests are in [2].

--D

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfs-linux.git/log/?h=djwong-devel
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfstests-dev.git/log/?h=djwong-devel

Comments

Dave Chinner Oct. 10, 2018, 1:02 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 05:10:38PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Dave, Eric, and I have been chasing a stale data exposure bug in the XFS
> reflink implementation, and tracked it down to reflink forgetting to do
> some of the file-extending activities that must happen for regular
> writes.
> 
> We then started auditing the clone, dedupe, and copyfile code and
> realized that from a file contents perspective, clonerange isn't any
> different from a regular file write.  Unfortunately, we also noticed
> that *unlike* a regular write, clonerange skips a ton of overflow
> checks, such as validating the ranges against s_maxbytes, MAX_NON_LFS,
> and RLIMIT_FSIZE.  We also observed that cloning into a file did not
> strip security privileges (suid, capabilities) like a regular write
> would.  I also noticed that xfs and ocfs2 need to dump the page cache
> before remapping blocks, not after.
> 
> In fixing the range checking problems I also realized that both dedupe
> and copyfile tell userspace how much of the requested operation was
> acted upon.  Since the range validation can shorten a clone request (or
> we can ENOSPC midway through), we might as well plumb the short
> operation reporting back through the VFS indirection code to userspace.
> 
> So, here's the whole giant pile of patches[1] that fix all the problems.
> The patch "generic: test reflink side effects" recently sent to fstests
> exercises the fixes in this series.  Tests are in [2].

Can you rebase this on the for-next branch on the xfs tree which
already contains some of the initial fixes in the series and a
couple of other reflink/dedupe data corruption fixes? I'm planning
on pushing them to Greg tomorrow, so you'll have to do this soon
anyway....

Cheers,

Dave.
Darrick J. Wong Oct. 10, 2018, 1:06 a.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:02:08PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 05:10:38PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Dave, Eric, and I have been chasing a stale data exposure bug in the XFS
> > reflink implementation, and tracked it down to reflink forgetting to do
> > some of the file-extending activities that must happen for regular
> > writes.
> > 
> > We then started auditing the clone, dedupe, and copyfile code and
> > realized that from a file contents perspective, clonerange isn't any
> > different from a regular file write.  Unfortunately, we also noticed
> > that *unlike* a regular write, clonerange skips a ton of overflow
> > checks, such as validating the ranges against s_maxbytes, MAX_NON_LFS,
> > and RLIMIT_FSIZE.  We also observed that cloning into a file did not
> > strip security privileges (suid, capabilities) like a regular write
> > would.  I also noticed that xfs and ocfs2 need to dump the page cache
> > before remapping blocks, not after.
> > 
> > In fixing the range checking problems I also realized that both dedupe
> > and copyfile tell userspace how much of the requested operation was
> > acted upon.  Since the range validation can shorten a clone request (or
> > we can ENOSPC midway through), we might as well plumb the short
> > operation reporting back through the VFS indirection code to userspace.
> > 
> > So, here's the whole giant pile of patches[1] that fix all the problems.
> > The patch "generic: test reflink side effects" recently sent to fstests
> > exercises the fixes in this series.  Tests are in [2].
> 
> Can you rebase this on the for-next branch on the xfs tree which
> already contains some of the initial fixes in the series and a
> couple of other reflink/dedupe data corruption fixes? I'm planning
> on pushing them to Greg tomorrow, so you'll have to do this soon
> anyway....

<nod> I was planning to do that tomorrow, but figured I might as well
scrape for review comments in the mean time.

--D

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com