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[v4] loop: fix no-unmap write-zeroes request behavior

Message ID 20191031032948.GA15212@magnolia (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v4] loop: fix no-unmap write-zeroes request behavior | expand

Commit Message

Darrick J. Wong Oct. 31, 2019, 3:29 a.m. UTC 
From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

Currently, if the loop device receives a WRITE_ZEROES request, it asks
the underlying filesystem to punch out the range.  This behavior is
correct if unmapping is allowed.  However, a NOUNMAP request means that
the caller doesn't want us to free the storage backing the range, so
punching out the range is incorrect behavior.

To satisfy a NOUNMAP | WRITE_ZEROES request, loop should ask the
underlying filesystem to FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE, which is (according to
the fallocate documentation) required to ensure that the entire range is
backed by real storage, which suffices for our purposes.

Fixes: 19372e2769179dd ("loop: implement REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
v4: add review tags
v3: refactor into a single fallocate function
v2: reorganize a little according to hch feedback
---
 drivers/block/loop.c |   26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Comments

Jens Axboe Nov. 1, 2019, 2:43 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 10/30/19 9:29 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> Currently, if the loop device receives a WRITE_ZEROES request, it asks
> the underlying filesystem to punch out the range.  This behavior is
> correct if unmapping is allowed.  However, a NOUNMAP request means that
> the caller doesn't want us to free the storage backing the range, so
> punching out the range is incorrect behavior.
> 
> To satisfy a NOUNMAP | WRITE_ZEROES request, loop should ask the
> underlying filesystem to FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE, which is (according to
> the fallocate documentation) required to ensure that the entire range is
> backed by real storage, which suffices for our purposes.

Applied, thanks Darrick.
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diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index f6f77eaa7217..ef6e251857c8 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -417,18 +417,20 @@  static int lo_read_transfer(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int lo_discard(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq, loff_t pos)
+static int lo_fallocate(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq, loff_t pos,
+			int mode)
 {
 	/*
-	 * We use punch hole to reclaim the free space used by the
-	 * image a.k.a. discard. However we do not support discard if
-	 * encryption is enabled, because it may give an attacker
-	 * useful information.
+	 * We use fallocate to manipulate the space mappings used by the image
+	 * a.k.a. discard/zerorange. However we do not support this if
+	 * encryption is enabled, because it may give an attacker useful
+	 * information.
 	 */
 	struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
-	int mode = FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE;
 	int ret;
 
+	mode |= FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE;
+
 	if ((!file->f_op->fallocate) || lo->lo_encrypt_key_size) {
 		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		goto out;
@@ -596,9 +598,17 @@  static int do_req_filebacked(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq)
 	switch (req_op(rq)) {
 	case REQ_OP_FLUSH:
 		return lo_req_flush(lo, rq);
-	case REQ_OP_DISCARD:
 	case REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES:
-		return lo_discard(lo, rq, pos);
+		/*
+		 * If the caller doesn't want deallocation, call zeroout to
+		 * write zeroes the range.  Otherwise, punch them out.
+		 */
+		return lo_fallocate(lo, rq, pos,
+			(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_NOUNMAP) ?
+				FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE :
+				FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE);
+	case REQ_OP_DISCARD:
+		return lo_fallocate(lo, rq, pos, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE);
 	case REQ_OP_WRITE:
 		if (lo->transfer)
 			return lo_write_transfer(lo, rq, pos);