[Cluster-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] iomap: partially revert 4721a601099 (simulated directio short read on EFAULT)

Zorro Lang zlang at redhat.com
Thu Aug 29 01:36:04 UTC 2019


On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 07:23:32AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:23:49PM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> > Hi Darrick,
> > 
> > Am So., 2. Dez. 2018 um 19:13 Uhr schrieb Darrick J. Wong
> > <darrick.wong at oracle.com>:
> > > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
> > >
> > > In commit 4721a601099, we tried to fix a problem wherein directio reads
> > > into a splice pipe will bounce EFAULT/EAGAIN all the way out to
> > > userspace by simulating a zero-byte short read.  This happens because
> > > some directio read implementations (xfs) will call
> > > bio_iov_iter_get_pages to grab pipe buffer pages and issue asynchronous
> > > reads, but as soon as we run out of pipe buffers that _get_pages call
> > > returns EFAULT, which the splice code translates to EAGAIN and bounces
> > > out to userspace.
> > >
> > > In that commit, the iomap code catches the EFAULT and simulates a
> > > zero-byte read, but that causes assertion errors on regular splice reads
> > > because xfs doesn't allow short directio reads.  This causes infinite
> > > splice() loops and assertion failures on generic/095 on overlayfs
> > > because xfs only permit total success or total failure of a directio
> > > operation.  The underlying issue in the pipe splice code has now been
> > > fixed by changing the pipe splice loop to avoid avoid reading more data
> > > than there is space in the pipe.
> > >
> > > Therefore, it's no longer necessary to simulate the short directio, so
> > > remove the hack from iomap.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 4721a601099 ("iomap: dio data corruption and spurious errors when pipes fill")
> > > Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il at gmail.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
> > > ---
> > > v2: split into two patches per hch request
> > > ---
> > >  fs/iomap.c |    9 ---------
> > >  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/iomap.c b/fs/iomap.c
> > > index 3ffb776fbebe..d6bc98ae8d35 100644
> > > --- a/fs/iomap.c
> > > +++ b/fs/iomap.c
> > > @@ -1877,15 +1877,6 @@ iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
> > >                                 dio->wait_for_completion = true;
> > >                                 ret = 0;
> > >                         }
> > > -
> > > -                       /*
> > > -                        * Splicing to pipes can fail on a full pipe. We have to
> > > -                        * swallow this to make it look like a short IO
> > > -                        * otherwise the higher splice layers will completely
> > > -                        * mishandle the error and stop moving data.
> > > -                        */
> > > -                       if (ret == -EFAULT)
> > > -                               ret = 0;
> > >                         break;
> > >                 }
> > >                 pos += ret;
> > 
> > I'm afraid this breaks the following test case on xfs and gfs2, the
> > two current users of iomap_dio_rw.
> 
> Hmm, I had kinda wondered if regular pipes still needed this help.
> Evidently we don't have a lot of splice tests in fstests. :(
> 
> > Here, the splice system call fails with errno = EAGAIN when trying to
> > "move data" from a file opened with O_DIRECT into a pipe.
> > 
> > The test case can be run with option -d to not use O_DIRECT, which
> > makes the test succeed.
> > 
> > The -r option switches from reading from the pipe sequentially to
> > reading concurrently with the splice, which doesn't change the
> > behavior.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> This would be great as an xfstest! :)

JFYI, I added splice operation into fsstress, and I tried to add splice operation
into xfs_io long time ago:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-xfs&m=155828702128047&w=2

But it haven't been merged. If you have any suggestion, please feel free to
review it:)

Thanks,
Zorro

> 
> Do you have one ready to go, or should I just make one from the source
> code?
> 
> --D
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Andreas
> > 
> > =================================== 8< ===================================
> > #define _GNU_SOURCE
> > #include <sys/types.h>
> > #include <sys/stat.h>
> > #include <sys/wait.h>
> > #include <unistd.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > #include <err.h>
> > 
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdbool.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> > #include <errno.h>
> > 
> > #define SECTOR_SIZE 512
> > #define BUFFER_SIZE (150 * SECTOR_SIZE)
> > 
> > void read_from_pipe(int fd, const char *filename, size_t size)
> > {
> >     char buffer[SECTOR_SIZE];
> >     size_t sz;
> >     ssize_t ret;
> > 
> >     while (size) {
> >         sz = size;
> >         if (sz > sizeof buffer)
> >             sz = sizeof buffer;
> >         ret = read(fd, buffer, sz);
> >         if (ret < 0)
> >             err(1, "read: %s", filename);
> >         if (ret == 0) {
> >             fprintf(stderr, "read: %s: unexpected EOF\n", filename);
> >             exit(1);
> >         }
> >         size -= sz;
> >     }
> > }
> > 
> > void do_splice1(int fd, const char *filename, size_t size)
> > {
> >     bool retried = false;
> >     int pipefd[2];
> > 
> >     if (pipe(pipefd) == -1)
> >         err(1, "pipe");
> >     while (size) {
> >         ssize_t spliced;
> > 
> >         spliced = splice(fd, NULL, pipefd[1], NULL, size, SPLICE_F_MOVE);
> >         if (spliced == -1) {
> >             if (errno == EAGAIN && !retried) {
> >                 retried = true;
> >                 fprintf(stderr, "retrying splice\n");
> >                 sleep(1);
> >                 continue;
> >             }
> >             err(1, "splice");
> >         }
> >         read_from_pipe(pipefd[0], filename, spliced);
> >         size -= spliced;
> >     }
> >     close(pipefd[0]);
> >     close(pipefd[1]);
> > }
> > 
> > void do_splice2(int fd, const char *filename, size_t size)
> > {
> >     bool retried = false;
> >     int pipefd[2];
> >     int pid;
> > 
> >     if (pipe(pipefd) == -1)
> >         err(1, "pipe");
> > 
> >     pid = fork();
> >     if (pid == 0) {
> >         close(pipefd[1]);
> >         read_from_pipe(pipefd[0], filename, size);
> >         exit(0);
> >     } else {
> >         close(pipefd[0]);
> >         while (size) {
> >             ssize_t spliced;
> > 
> >             spliced = splice(fd, NULL, pipefd[1], NULL, size, SPLICE_F_MOVE);
> >             if (spliced == -1) {
> >                 if (errno == EAGAIN && !retried) {
> >                     retried = true;
> >                     fprintf(stderr, "retrying splice\n");
> >                     sleep(1);
> >                     continue;
> >                 }
> >                 err(1, "splice");
> >             }
> >             size -= spliced;
> >         }
> >         close(pipefd[1]);
> >         waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
> >     }
> > }
> > 
> > void usage(const char *argv0)
> > {
> >     fprintf(stderr, "USAGE: %s [-rd] {filename}\n", basename(argv0));
> >     exit(2);
> > }
> > 
> > int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > {
> >     void (*do_splice)(int fd, const char *filename, size_t size);
> >     const char *filename;
> >     char *buffer;
> >     int opt, open_flags, fd;
> >     ssize_t ret;
> > 
> >     do_splice = do_splice1;
> >     open_flags = O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_RDWR | O_DIRECT;
> > 
> >     while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "rd")) != -1) {
> >         switch(opt) {
> >         case 'r':
> >             do_splice = do_splice2;
> >             break;
> >         case 'd':
> >             open_flags &= ~O_DIRECT;
> >             break;
> >         default:  /* '?' */
> >             usage(argv[0]);
> >         }
> >     }
> > 
> >     if (optind >= argc)
> >         usage(argv[0]);
> >     filename = argv[optind];
> > 
> >     printf("%s reader %s O_DIRECT\n",
> >            do_splice == do_splice1 ? "sequential" : "concurrent",
> >            (open_flags & O_DIRECT) ? "with" : "without");
> > 
> >     buffer = aligned_alloc(SECTOR_SIZE, BUFFER_SIZE);
> >     if (buffer == NULL)
> >         err(1, "aligned_alloc");
> > 
> >     fd = open(filename, open_flags, 0666);
> >     if (fd == -1)
> >         err(1, "open: %s", filename);
> > 
> >     memset(buffer, 'x', BUFFER_SIZE);
> >     ret = write(fd, buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
> >     if (ret < 0)
> >         err(1, "write: %s", filename);
> >     if (ret != BUFFER_SIZE) {
> >         fprintf(stderr, "%s: short write\n", filename);
> >         exit(1);
> >     }
> > 
> >     ret = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
> >     if (ret != 0)
> >         err(1, "lseek: %s", filename);
> > 
> >     do_splice(fd, filename, BUFFER_SIZE);
> > 
> >     if (unlink(filename) == -1)
> >         err(1, "unlink: %s", filename);
> > 
> >     return 0;
> > }
> > =================================== 8< ===================================




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