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[v4,11/16] fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches

Message ID 9a458c9c553c6a8d5416c91650a9b152458459d0.1723670362.git.josef@toxicpanda.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Series fanotify: add pre-content hooks | expand

Commit Message

Josef Bacik Aug. 14, 2024, 9:25 p.m. UTC
With page faults we can trigger readahead on the file, and then
subsequent faults can find these pages and insert them into the file
without emitting an fanotify event.  To avoid this case, disable
readahead if we have pre-content watches on the file.  This way we are
guaranteed to get an event for every range we attempt to access on a
pre-content watched file.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
---
 mm/filemap.c   | 12 ++++++++++++
 mm/readahead.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

Comments

Jan Kara Aug. 29, 2024, 10:48 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed 14-08-24 17:25:29, Josef Bacik wrote:
> With page faults we can trigger readahead on the file, and then
> subsequent faults can find these pages and insert them into the file
> without emitting an fanotify event.  To avoid this case, disable
> readahead if we have pre-content watches on the file.  This way we are
> guaranteed to get an event for every range we attempt to access on a
> pre-content watched file.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

...

> @@ -674,6 +675,14 @@ void page_cache_sync_ra(struct readahead_control *ractl,
>  {
>  	bool do_forced_ra = ractl->file && (ractl->file->f_mode & FMODE_RANDOM);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * If we have pre-content watches we need to disable readahead to make
> +	 * sure that we don't find 0 filled pages in cache that we never emitted
> +	 * events for.
> +	 */
> +	if (ractl->file && fsnotify_file_has_pre_content_watches(ractl->file))
> +		return;
> +

There are callers which don't pass struct file to readahead (either to
page_cache_sync_ra() or page_cache_async_ra()). Luckily these are very few
- cramfs for a block device (we don't care) and btrfs from code paths like
send-receive or defrag. Now if you tell me you're fine breaking these
corner cases for btrfs, I'll take your word for it but it looks like a
nasty trap to me. Now doing things like defrag or send-receive on offline
files on HSM managed filesystem doesn't look like a terribly good idea
anyway so perhaps we just want btrfs to check and refuse such things?

								Honza
Josef Bacik Aug. 29, 2024, 12:44 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 12:48:05PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 14-08-24 17:25:29, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > With page faults we can trigger readahead on the file, and then
> > subsequent faults can find these pages and insert them into the file
> > without emitting an fanotify event.  To avoid this case, disable
> > readahead if we have pre-content watches on the file.  This way we are
> > guaranteed to get an event for every range we attempt to access on a
> > pre-content watched file.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
> 
> ...
> 
> > @@ -674,6 +675,14 @@ void page_cache_sync_ra(struct readahead_control *ractl,
> >  {
> >  	bool do_forced_ra = ractl->file && (ractl->file->f_mode & FMODE_RANDOM);
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If we have pre-content watches we need to disable readahead to make
> > +	 * sure that we don't find 0 filled pages in cache that we never emitted
> > +	 * events for.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (ractl->file && fsnotify_file_has_pre_content_watches(ractl->file))
> > +		return;
> > +
> 
> There are callers which don't pass struct file to readahead (either to
> page_cache_sync_ra() or page_cache_async_ra()). Luckily these are very few
> - cramfs for a block device (we don't care) and btrfs from code paths like
> send-receive or defrag. Now if you tell me you're fine breaking these
> corner cases for btrfs, I'll take your word for it but it looks like a
> nasty trap to me. Now doing things like defrag or send-receive on offline
> files on HSM managed filesystem doesn't look like a terribly good idea
> anyway so perhaps we just want btrfs to check and refuse such things?
> 

We can't have HSM on a send subvolume because they have to be read only.  I
hadn't thought of defrag, I'll respin and add a patch to disallow defrag on a
file that has content watches.  Thanks,

Josef
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index ca8c8d889eef..8b1684b62177 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3122,6 +3122,14 @@  static struct file *do_sync_mmap_readahead(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	unsigned long vm_flags = vmf->vma->vm_flags;
 	unsigned int mmap_miss;
 
+	/*
+	 * If we have pre-content watches we need to disable readahead to make
+	 * sure that we don't populate our mapping with 0 filled pages that we
+	 * never emitted an event for.
+	 */
+	if (fsnotify_file_has_pre_content_watches(file))
+		return fpin;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 	/* Use the readahead code, even if readahead is disabled */
 	if ((vm_flags & VM_HUGEPAGE) && HPAGE_PMD_ORDER <= MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER) {
@@ -3190,6 +3198,10 @@  static struct file *do_async_mmap_readahead(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	struct file *fpin = NULL;
 	unsigned int mmap_miss;
 
+	/* See comment in do_sync_mmap_readahead. */
+	if (fsnotify_file_has_pre_content_watches(file))
+		return fpin;
+
 	/* If we don't want any read-ahead, don't bother */
 	if (vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_RAND_READ || !ra->ra_pages)
 		return fpin;
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 817b2a352d78..bc068d9218e3 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/blk-cgroup.h>
 #include <linux/fadvise.h>
 #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -674,6 +675,14 @@  void page_cache_sync_ra(struct readahead_control *ractl,
 {
 	bool do_forced_ra = ractl->file && (ractl->file->f_mode & FMODE_RANDOM);
 
+	/*
+	 * If we have pre-content watches we need to disable readahead to make
+	 * sure that we don't find 0 filled pages in cache that we never emitted
+	 * events for.
+	 */
+	if (ractl->file && fsnotify_file_has_pre_content_watches(ractl->file))
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * Even if readahead is disabled, issue this request as readahead
 	 * as we'll need it to satisfy the requested range. The forced
@@ -704,6 +713,10 @@  void page_cache_async_ra(struct readahead_control *ractl,
 	if (!ractl->ra->ra_pages)
 		return;
 
+	/* See the comment in page_cache_sync_ra. */
+	if (ractl->file && fsnotify_file_has_pre_content_watches(ractl->file))
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * Same bit is used for PG_readahead and PG_reclaim.
 	 */