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xfs: don't BUG() on mixed direct and mapped I/O

Message ID 1477923268-59559-1-git-send-email-bfoster@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Brian Foster Oct. 31, 2016, 2:14 p.m. UTC
We've had reports of generic/095 causing XFS to BUG() in
__xfs_get_blocks() due to the existence of delalloc blocks on a direct
I/O read. generic/095 issues a mix of various types of I/O, including
direct and memory mapped I/O to a single file. This is clearly not
supported behavior and is known to lead to such problems. E.g., the lack
of exclusion between the direct I/O and write fault paths means that a
write fault can allocate delalloc blocks in a region of a file that was
previously a hole after the direct read has attempted to flush/inval the
file range, but before it actually reads the block mapping. In turn, the
direct read discovers a delalloc extent and cannot proceed.

While the appropriate solution here is to not mix direct and memory
mapped I/O to the same regions of the same file, the current BUG_ON()
behavior is probably overkill as it can crash the entire system.
Instead, localize the failure to the I/O in question by returning an
error for a direct I/O that cannot be handled safely due to delalloc
blocks. Be careful to allow the case of a direct write to post-eof
delalloc blocks. This can occur due to speculative preallocation and is
safe as post-eof blocks are not accompanied by dirty pages in pagecache
(conversely, preallocation within eof must have been zeroed, and thus
dirtied, before the inode size could have been increased beyond said
blocks).

Finally, provide an additional warning if a direct I/O write occurs
while the file is memory mapped. This may not catch all problematic
scenarios, but provides a hint that some known-to-be-problematic I/O
methods are in use.

Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
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FWIW, this survived xfstests and a weekend of a 16x fsstress run.

Brian

 fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index 3e57a56..2693ba8 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1361,6 +1361,26 @@  __xfs_get_blocks(
 	if (error)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	/*
+	 * The only time we can ever safely find delalloc blocks on direct I/O
+	 * is a dio write to post-eof speculative preallocation. All other
+	 * scenarios are indicative of a problem or misuse (such as mixing
+	 * direct and mapped I/O).
+	 *
+	 * The file may be unmapped by the time we get here so we cannot
+	 * reliably fail the I/O based on mapping. Instead, fail the I/O if this
+	 * is a read or a write within eof. Otherwise, carry on but warn as a
+	 * precuation if the file happens to be mapped.
+	 */
+	if (direct && imap.br_startblock == DELAYSTARTBLOCK) {
+		if (!create || offset < i_size_read(VFS_I(ip))) {
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+			error = -EIO;
+			goto out_unlock;
+		}
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(mapping_mapped(VFS_I(ip)->i_mapping));
+	}
+
 	/* for DAX, we convert unwritten extents directly */
 	if (create &&
 	    (!nimaps ||
@@ -1450,8 +1470,6 @@  __xfs_get_blocks(
 	     (new || ISUNWRITTEN(&imap))))
 		set_buffer_new(bh_result);
 
-	BUG_ON(direct && imap.br_startblock == DELAYSTARTBLOCK);
-
 	return 0;
 
 out_unlock: