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2023-08-28Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes for vfs and individual filesystems. Features: - Block mode changes on symlinks and rectify our broken semantics - Report file modifications via fsnotify() for splice - Allow specifying an explicit timeout for the "rootwait" kernel command line option. This allows to timeout and reboot instead of always waiting indefinitely for the root device to show up - Use synchronous fput for the close system call Cleanups: - Get rid of open-coded lockdep workarounds for async io submitters and replace it all with a single consolidated helper - Simplify epoll allocation helper - Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio - Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio - Simplify __range_close to avoid pointless locking - Disable per-cpu buffer head cache for isolated cpus - Port ecryptfs to kmap_local_page() api - Remove redundant initialization of pointer buf in pipe code - Unexport the d_genocide() function which is only used within core vfs - Replace printk(KERN_ERR) and WARN_ON() with WARN() Fixes: - Fix various kernel-doc issues - Fix refcount underflow for eventfds when used as EFD_SEMAPHORE - Fix a mainly theoretical issue in devpts - Check the return value of __getblk() in reiserfs - Fix a racy assert in i_readcount_dec - Fix integer conversion issues in various functions - Fix LSM security context handling during automounts that prevented NFS superblock sharing" * tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits) cachefiles: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers ovl: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers aio: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers io_uring: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers fs: create kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers fs: add kerneldoc to file_{start,end}_write() helpers io_uring: rename kiocb_end_write() local helper splice: Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio libfs: Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio fs/dcache: Replace printk and WARN_ON by WARN fs/pipe: remove redundant initialization of pointer buf fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings devpts: Fix kernel-doc warnings doc: idmappings: fix an error and rephrase a paragraph init: Add support for rootwait timeout parameter vfs: fix up the assert in i_readcount_dec fs: Fix one kernel-doc comment docs: filesystems: idmappings: clarify from where idmappings are taken fs/buffer.c: disable per-CPU buffer_head cache for isolated CPUs vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing ...
2023-08-19fs/pipe: remove redundant initialization of pointer bufColin Ian King
The pointer buf is being initializated with a value that is never read, it is being re-assigned later on at the pointer where it is being used. The initialization is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: fs/pipe.c:492:24: warning: Value stored to 'buf' during its initialization is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20230818144556.1208082-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-07-13fs: convert to ctime accessor functionsJeff Layton
In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of inode->i_ctime. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-23-jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-07-10pipe: Pass argument of pipe_fcntl as intLuca Vizzarro
The interface for fcntl expects the argument passed for the command F_SETPIPE_SZ to be of type int. The current code wrongly treats it as a long. In order to avoid access to undefined bits, we should explicitly cast the argument to int. Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Kevin Brodsky <Kevin.Brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com> Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@arm.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-morello@op-lists.linaro.org Signed-off-by: Luca Vizzarro <Luca.Vizzarro@arm.com> Message-Id: <20230414152459.816046-4-Luca.Vizzarro@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-05-12pipe: check for IOCB_NOWAIT alongside O_NONBLOCKJens Axboe
Pipe reads or writes need to enable nonblocking attempts, if either O_NONBLOCK is set on the file, or IOCB_NOWAIT is set in the iocb being passed in. The latter isn't currently true, ensure we check for both before waiting on data or space. Fixes: afed6271f5b0 ("pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT on pipes") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Message-Id: <e5946d67-4e5e-b056-ba80-656bab12d9f6@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-04-25pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT on pipesJens Axboe
Pipes themselves do not hold the the pipe lock across IO, and hence are safe for RWF_NOWAIT/IOCB_NOWAIT usage. The "contract" for NOWAIT is really "should not do IO under this lock", not strictly that we cannot block or that the below code is in any way atomic. Pipes fulfil that criteria. Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2022-08-20dynamic_dname(): drop unused dentry argumentAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2022-05-27Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton: "The non-MM patch queue for this merge window. Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various subsystems. Most notably some maintenance work in ocfs2 and initramfs" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (65 commits) kcov: update pos before writing pc in trace function ocfs2: dlmfs: fix error handling of user_dlm_destroy_lock ocfs2: dlmfs: don't clear USER_LOCK_ATTACHED when destroying lock fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx fat: remove time truncations in vfat_create/vfat_mkdir fat: report creation time in statx fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory fat: split fat_truncate_time() into separate functions MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as a memcg reviewer proc/sysctl: make protected_* world readable ia64: mca: drop redundant spinlock initialization tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port->lock relay: remove redundant assignment to pointer buf fs/ntfs3: validate BOOT sectors_per_clusters lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list kernel/crash_core.c: remove redundant check of ck_cmdline ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree() ipc: update semtimedop() to use hrtimer ipc/sem: remove redundant assignments ...
2022-05-27pipe: Fix missing lock in pipe_resize_ring()David Howells
pipe_resize_ring() needs to take the pipe->rd_wait.lock spinlock to prevent post_one_notification() from trying to insert into the ring whilst the ring is being replaced. The occupancy check must be done after the lock is taken, and the lock must be taken after the new ring is allocated. The bug can lead to an oops looking something like: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in post_one_notification.isra.0+0x62e/0x840 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88801cc72a70 by task poc/27196 ... Call Trace: post_one_notification.isra.0+0x62e/0x840 __post_watch_notification+0x3b7/0x650 key_create_or_update+0xb8b/0xd20 __do_sys_add_key+0x175/0x340 __x64_sys_add_key+0xbe/0x140 do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Reported by Selim Enes Karaduman @Enesdex working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com # ZDI-CAN-17291 Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-04-29pipe: make poll_usage boolean and annotate its accessKuniyuki Iwashima
Patch series "Fix data-races around epoll reported by KCSAN." This series suppresses a false positive KCSAN's message and fixes a real data-race. This patch (of 2): pipe_poll() runs locklessly and assigns 1 to poll_usage. Once poll_usage is set to 1, it never changes in other places. However, concurrent writes of a value trigger KCSAN, so let's make KCSAN happy. BUG: KCSAN: data-race in pipe_poll / pipe_poll write to 0xffff8880042f6678 of 4 bytes by task 174 on cpu 3: pipe_poll (fs/pipe.c:656) ep_item_poll.isra.0 (./include/linux/poll.h:88 fs/eventpoll.c:853) do_epoll_wait (fs/eventpoll.c:1692 fs/eventpoll.c:1806 fs/eventpoll.c:2234) __x64_sys_epoll_wait (fs/eventpoll.c:2246 fs/eventpoll.c:2241 fs/eventpoll.c:2241) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:113) write to 0xffff8880042f6678 of 4 bytes by task 177 on cpu 1: pipe_poll (fs/pipe.c:656) ep_item_poll.isra.0 (./include/linux/poll.h:88 fs/eventpoll.c:853) do_epoll_wait (fs/eventpoll.c:1692 fs/eventpoll.c:1806 fs/eventpoll.c:2234) __x64_sys_epoll_wait (fs/eventpoll.c:2246 fs/eventpoll.c:2241 fs/eventpoll.c:2241) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:113) Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 1 PID: 177 Comm: epoll_race Not tainted 5.17.0-58927-gf443e374ae13 #6 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.0-2.amzn2 04/01/2014 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322002653.33865-1-kuniyu@amazon.co.jp Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322002653.33865-2-kuniyu@amazon.co.jp Fixes: 3b844826b6c6 ("pipe: avoid unnecessary EPOLLET wakeups under normal loads") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@gmail.com> Cc: "Soheil Hassas Yeganeh" <soheil@google.com> Cc: "Sridhar Samudrala" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-04-20Revert "fs/pipe: use kvcalloc to allocate a pipe_buffer array"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 5a519c8fe4d620912385f94372fc8472fa98c662. It turns out that making the pipe almost arbitrarily large has some rather unexpected downsides. The kernel test robot reports a kernel warning that is due to pipe->max_usage now growing to the point where the iter_file_splice_write() buffer allocation can no longer be satisfied as a slab allocation, and the int nbufs = pipe->max_usage; struct bio_vec *array = kcalloc(nbufs, sizeof(struct bio_vec), GFP_KERNEL); code sequence there will now always fail as a result. That code could be modified to use kvcalloc() too, but I feel very uncomfortable making those kinds of changes for a very niche use case that really should have other options than make these kinds of fundamental changes to pipe behavior. Maybe the CRIU process dumping should be multi-threaded, and use multiple pipes and multiple cores, rather than try to use one larger pipe to minimize splice() calls. Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220420073717.GD16310@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23fs/pipe.c: local vars have to match types of proper pipe_inode_info fieldsAndrei Vagin
head, tail, ring_size are declared as unsigned int, so all local variables that operate with these fields have to be unsigned to avoid signed integer overflow. Right now, it isn't an issue because the maximum pipe size is limited by 1U<<31. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220106171946.36128-1-avagin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23fs/pipe: use kvcalloc to allocate a pipe_buffer arrayAndrei Vagin
Right now, kcalloc is used to allocate a pipe_buffer array. The size of the pipe_buffer struct is 40 bytes. kcalloc allows allocating reliably chunks with sizes less or equal to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER (3). It means that the maximum pipe size is 3.2MB in this case. In CRIU, we use pipes to dump processes memory. CRIU freezes a target process, injects a parasite code into it and then this code splices memory into pipes. If a maximum pipe size is small, we need to do many iterations or create many pipes. kvcalloc attempt to allocate physically contiguous memory, but upon failure, fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation and so it isn't limited by PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. The maximum pipe size for non-root users is limited by the /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size sysctl that is 1MB by default, so only the root user will be able to trigger vmalloc allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220104171058.22580-1-avagin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Fix lack of barrier/sync/lock between post and readDavid Howells
There's nothing to synchronise post_one_notification() versus pipe_read(). Whilst posting is done under pipe->rd_wait.lock, the reader only takes pipe->mutex which cannot bar notification posting as that may need to be made from contexts that cannot sleep. Fix this by setting pipe->head with a barrier in post_one_notification() and reading pipe->head with a barrier in pipe_read(). If that's not sufficient, the rd_wait.lock will need to be taken, possibly in a ->confirm() op so that it only applies to notifications. The lock would, however, have to be dropped before copy_page_to_iter() is invoked. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue, pipe: Free watchqueue state after clearing pipe ringDavid Howells
In free_pipe_info(), free the watchqueue state after clearing the pipe ring as each pipe ring descriptor has a release function, and in the case of a notification message, this is watch_queue_pipe_buf_release() which tries to mark the allocation bitmap that was previously released. Fix this by moving the put of the pipe's ref on the watch queue to after the ring has been cleared. We still need to call watch_queue_clear() before doing that to make sure that the pipe is disconnected from any notification sources first. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-22fs: move pipe sysctls to is own fileLuis Chamberlain
kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain. To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just care about the core logic. So move the pipe sysctls to its own file. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129205548.605569-10-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de> Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-07Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 9857a17f206ff374aea78bccfb687f145368be2e. That commit was completely broken, and I should have caught on to it earlier. But happily, the kernel test robot noticed the breakage fairly quickly. The breakage is because "try_get_page()" is about avoiding the page reference count overflow case, but is otherwise the exact same as a plain "get_page()". In contrast, "try_get_compound_head()" is an entirely different beast, and uses __page_cache_add_speculative() because it's not just about the page reference count, but also about possibly racing with the underlying page going away. So all the commentary about how "try_get_page() has fallen a little behind in terms of maintenance, try_get_compound_head() handles speculative page references more thoroughly" was just completely wrong: yes, try_get_compound_head() handles speculative page references, but the point is that try_get_page() does not, and must not. So there's no lack of maintainance - there are fundamentally different semantics. A speculative page reference would be entirely wrong in "get_page()", and it's entirely wrong in "try_get_page()". It's not about speculation, it's purely about "uhhuh, you can't get this page because you've tried to increment the reference count too much already". The reason the kernel test robot noticed this bug was that it hit the VM_BUG_ON() in __page_cache_add_speculative(), which is all about verifying that the context of any speculative page access is correct. But since that isn't what try_get_page() is all about, the VM_BUG_ON() tests things that are not correct to test for try_get_page(). Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directlyJohn Hubbard
try_get_page() is very similar to try_get_compound_head(), and in fact try_get_page() has fallen a little behind in terms of maintenance: try_get_compound_head() handles speculative page references more thoroughly. There are only two try_get_page() callsites, so just call try_get_compound_head() directly from those, and remove try_get_page() entirely. Also, seeing as how this changes try_get_compound_head() into a non-static function, provide some kerneldoc documentation for it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210813044133.1536842-4-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-08-25pipe: do FASYNC notifications for every pipe IO, not just state changesLinus Torvalds
It turns out that the SIGIO/FASYNC situation is almost exactly the same as the EPOLLET case was: user space really wants to be notified after every operation. Now, in a perfect world it should be sufficient to only notify user space on "state transitions" when the IO state changes (ie when a pipe goes from unreadable to readable, or from unwritable to writable). User space should then do as much as possible - fully emptying the buffer or what not - and we'll notify it again the next time the state changes. But as with EPOLLET, we have at least one case (stress-ng) where the kernel sent SIGIO due to the pipe being marked for asynchronous notification, but the user space signal handler then didn't actually necessarily read it all before returning (it read more than what was written, but since there could be multiple writes, it could leave data pending). The user space code then expected to get another SIGIO for subsequent writes - even though the pipe had been readable the whole time - and would only then read more. This is arguably a user space bug - and Colin King already fixed the stress-ng code in question - but the kernel regression rules are clear: it doesn't matter if kernel people think that user space did something silly and wrong. What matters is that it used to work. So if user space depends on specific historical kernel behavior, it's a regression when that behavior changes. It's on us: we were silly to have that non-optimal historical behavior, and our old kernel behavior was what user space was tested against. Because of how the FASYNC notification was tied to wakeup behavior, this was first broken by commits f467a6a66419 and 1b6b26ae7053 ("pipe: fix and clarify pipe read/write wakeup logic"), but at the time it seems nobody noticed. Probably because the stress-ng problem case ends up being timing-dependent too. It was then unwittingly fixed by commit 3a34b13a88ca ("pipe: make pipe writes always wake up readers") only to be broken again when by commit 3b844826b6c6 ("pipe: avoid unnecessary EPOLLET wakeups under normal loads"). And at that point the kernel test robot noticed the performance refression in the stress-ng.sigio.ops_per_sec case. So the "Fixes" tag below is somewhat ad hoc, but it matches when the issue was noticed. Fix it for good (knock wood) by simply making the kill_fasync() case separate from the wakeup case. FASYNC is quite rare, and we clearly shouldn't even try to use the "avoid unnecessary wakeups" logic for it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210824151337.GC27667@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Fixes: 3b844826b6c6 ("pipe: avoid unnecessary EPOLLET wakeups under normal loads") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-08-18pipe: avoid unnecessary EPOLLET wakeups under normal loadsLinus Torvalds
I had forgotten just how sensitive hackbench is to extra pipe wakeups, and commit 3a34b13a88ca ("pipe: make pipe writes always wake up readers") ended up causing a quite noticeable regression on larger machines. Now, hackbench isn't necessarily a hugely meaningful benchmark, and it's not clear that this matters in real life all that much, but as Mel points out, it's used often enough when comparing kernels and so the performance regression shows up like a sore thumb. It's easy enough to fix at least for the common cases where pipes are used purely for data transfer, and you never have any exciting poll usage at all. So set a special 'poll_usage' flag when there is polling activity, and make the ugly "EPOLLET has crazy legacy expectations" semantics explicit to only that case. I would love to limit it to just the broken EPOLLET case, but the pipe code can't see the difference between epoll and regular select/poll, so any non-read/write waiting will trigger the extra wakeup behavior. That is sufficient for at least the hackbench case. Apart from making the odd extra wakeup cases more explicitly about EPOLLET, this also makes the extra wakeup be at the _end_ of the pipe write, not at the first write chunk. That is actually much saner semantics (as much as you can call any of the legacy edge-triggered expectations for EPOLLET "sane") since it means that you know the wakeup will happen once the write is done, rather than possibly in the middle of one. [ For stable people: I'm putting a "Fixes" tag on this, but I leave it up to you to decide whether you actually want to backport it or not. It likely has no impact outside of synthetic benchmarks - Linus ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210802024945.GA8372@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Fixes: 3a34b13a88ca ("pipe: make pipe writes always wake up readers") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com> Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-08-05pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pagesAlex Xu (Hello71)
This program always prints 4096 and hangs before the patch, and always prints 8192 and exits successfully after: int main() { int pipefd[2]; for (int i = 0; i < 1025; i++) if (pipe(pipefd) == -1) return 1; size_t bufsz = fcntl(pipefd[1], F_GETPIPE_SZ); printf("%zd\n", bufsz); char *buf = calloc(bufsz, 1); write(pipefd[1], buf, bufsz); read(pipefd[0], buf, bufsz-1); write(pipefd[1], buf, 1); } Note that you may need to increase your RLIMIT_NOFILE before running the program. Fixes: 759c01142a ("pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628086770.5rn8p04n6j.none@localhost/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628127094.lxxn016tj7.none@localhost/ Signed-off-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-07-30pipe: make pipe writes always wake up readersLinus Torvalds
Since commit 1b6b26ae7053 ("pipe: fix and clarify pipe write wakeup logic") we have sanitized the pipe write logic, and would only try to wake up readers if they needed it. In particular, if the pipe already had data in it before the write, there was no point in trying to wake up a reader, since any existing readers must have been aware of the pre-existing data already. Doing extraneous wakeups will only cause potential thundering herd problems. However, it turns out that some Android libraries have misused the EPOLL interface, and expected "edge triggered" be to "any new write will trigger it". Even if there was no edge in sight. Quoting Sandeep Patil: "The commit 1b6b26ae7053 ('pipe: fix and clarify pipe write wakeup logic') changed pipe write logic to wakeup readers only if the pipe was empty at the time of write. However, there are libraries that relied upon the older behavior for notification scheme similar to what's described in [1] One such library 'realm-core'[2] is used by numerous Android applications. The library uses a similar notification mechanism as GNU Make but it never drains the pipe until it is full. When Android moved to v5.10 kernel, all applications using this library stopped working. The library has since been fixed[3] but it will be a while before all applications incorporate the updated library" Our regression rule for the kernel is that if applications break from new behavior, it's a regression, even if it was because the application did something patently wrong. Also note the original report [4] by Michal Kerrisk about a test for this epoll behavior - but at that point we didn't know of any actual broken use case. So add the extraneous wakeup, to approximate the old behavior. [ I say "approximate", because the exact old behavior was to do a wakeup not for each write(), but for each pipe buffer chunk that was filled in. The behavior introduced by this change is not that - this is just "every write will cause a wakeup, whether necessary or not", which seems to be sufficient for the broken library use. ] It's worth noting that this adds the extraneous wakeup only for the write side, while the read side still considers the "edge" to be purely about reading enough from the pipe to allow further writes. See commit f467a6a66419 ("pipe: fix and clarify pipe read wakeup logic") for the pipe read case, which remains that "only wake up if the pipe was full, and we read something from it". Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjeG0q1vgzu4iJhW5juPkTsjTYmiqiMUYAebWW+0bam6w@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://github.com/realm/realm-core [2] Link: https://github.com/realm/realm-core/issues/4666 [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKgNAkjMBGeAwF=2MKK758BhxvW58wYTgYKB2V-gY1PwXxrH+Q@mail.gmail.com/ [4] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210729222635.2937453-1-sspatil@android.com/ Reported-by: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-02-24fs: delete repeated words in commentsRandy Dunlap
Delete duplicate words in fs/*.c. The doubled words that are being dropped are: that, be, the, in, and, for Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201224052810.25315-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-01-25fs/pipe: allow sendfile() to pipe againJohannes Berg
After commit 36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops") sendfile() could no longer send data from a real file to a pipe, breaking for example certain cgit setups (e.g. when running behind fcgiwrap), because in this case cgit will try to do exactly this: sendfile() to a pipe. Fix this by using iter_file_splice_write for the splice_write method of pipes, as suggested by Christoph. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops") Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-01block: remove i_bdevChristoph Hellwig
Switch the block device lookup interfaces to directly work with a dev_t so that struct block_device references are only acquired by the blkdev_get variants (and the blk-cgroup special case). This means that we now don't need an extra reference in the inode and can generally simplify handling of struct block_device to keep the lookups contained in the core block layer code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> [bcache] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-10-11Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds
Pull vfs fix from Al Viro: "Fixes an obvious bug (memory leak introduced in 5.8)" * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: pipe: Fix memory leaks in create_pipe_files()
2020-10-01pipe: remove pipe_wait() and fix wakeup race with spliceLinus Torvalds
The pipe splice code still used the old model of waiting for pipe IO by using a non-specific "pipe_wait()" that waited for any pipe event to happen, which depended on all pipe IO being entirely serialized by the pipe lock. So by checking the state you were waiting for, and then adding yourself to the wait queue before dropping the lock, you were guaranteed to see all the wakeups. Strictly speaking, the actual wakeups were not done under the lock, but the pipe_wait() model still worked, because since the waiter held the lock when checking whether it should sleep, it would always see the current state, and the wakeup was always done after updating the state. However, commit 0ddad21d3e99 ("pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writing") split the single wait-queue into two, and in the process also made the "wait for event" code wait for _two_ wait queues, and that then showed a race with the wakers that were not serialized by the pipe lock. It's only splice that used that "pipe_wait()" model, so the problem wasn't obvious, but Josef Bacik reports: "I hit a hang with fstest btrfs/187, which does a btrfs send into /dev/null. This works by creating a pipe, the write side is given to the kernel to write into, and the read side is handed to a thread that splices into a file, in this case /dev/null. The box that was hung had the write side stuck here [pipe_write] and the read side stuck here [splice_from_pipe_next -> pipe_wait]. [ more details about pipe_wait() scenario ] The problem is we're doing the prepare_to_wait, which sets our state each time, however we can be woken up either with reads or writes. In the case above we race with the WRITER waking us up, and re-set our state to INTERRUPTIBLE, and thus never break out of schedule" Josef had a patch that avoided the issue in pipe_wait() by just making it set the state only once, but the deeper problem is that pipe_wait() depends on a level of synchonization by the pipe mutex that it really shouldn't. And the whole "wait for any pipe state change" model really isn't very good to begin with. So rather than trying to work around things in pipe_wait(), remove that legacy model of "wait for arbitrary pipe event" entirely, and actually create functions that wait for the pipe actually being readable or writable, and can do so without depending on the pipe lock serializing everything. Fixes: 0ddad21d3e99 ("pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writing") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/bfa88b5ad6f069b2b679316b9e495a970130416c.1601567868.git.josef@toxicpanda.com/ Reported-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-01pipe: Fix memory leaks in create_pipe_files()Qian Cai
Calling pipe2() with O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE could results in memory leaks unless watch_queue_init() is successful. In case of watch_queue_init() failure in pipe2() we are left with inode and pipe_inode_info instances that need to be freed. That failure exit has been introduced in commit c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") and its handling should've been identical to nearby treatment of alloc_file_pseudo() failures - it is dealing with the same situation. As it is, the mainline kernel leaks in that case. Another problem is that CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE and !CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE cases are treated differently (and the former leaks just pipe_inode_info, the latter - both pipe_inode_info and inode). Fixed by providing a dummy wacth_queue_init() in !CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE case and by having failures of wacth_queue_init() handled the same way we handle alloc_file_pseudo() ones. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-06-13Merge tag 'notifications-20200601' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs Pull notification queue from David Howells: "This adds a general notification queue concept and adds an event source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and unlinking keys and changing their attributes. Thanks to Debarshi Ray, we do have a pull request to use this to fix a problem with gnome-online-accounts - as mentioned last time: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/merge_requests/47 Without this, g-o-a has to constantly poll a keyring-based kerberos cache to find out if kinit has changed anything. [ There are other notification pending: mount/sb fsinfo notifications for libmount that Karel Zak and Ian Kent have been working on, and Christian Brauner would like to use them in lxc, but let's see how this one works first ] LSM hooks are included: - A set of hooks are provided that allow an LSM to rule on whether or not a watch may be set. Each of these hooks takes a different "watched object" parameter, so they're not really shareable. The LSM should use current's credentials. [Wanted by SELinux & Smack] - A hook is provided to allow an LSM to rule on whether or not a particular message may be posted to a particular queue. This is given the credentials from the event generator (which may be the system) and the watch setter. [Wanted by Smack] I've provided SELinux and Smack with implementations of some of these hooks. WHY === Key/keyring notifications are desirable because if you have your kerberos tickets in a file/directory, your Gnome desktop will monitor that using something like fanotify and tell you if your credentials cache changes. However, we also have the ability to cache your kerberos tickets in the session, user or persistent keyring so that it isn't left around on disk across a reboot or logout. Keyrings, however, cannot currently be monitored asynchronously, so the desktop has to poll for it - not so good on a laptop. This facility will allow the desktop to avoid the need to poll. DESIGN DECISIONS ================ - The notification queue is built on top of a standard pipe. Messages are effectively spliced in. The pipe is opened with a special flag: pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE); The special flag has the same value as O_EXCL (which doesn't seem like it will ever be applicable in this context)[?]. It is given up front to make it a lot easier to prohibit splice&co from accessing the pipe. [?] Should this be done some other way? I'd rather not use up a new O_* flag if I can avoid it - should I add a pipe3() system call instead? The pipe is then configured:: ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth); ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_FILTER, &filter); Messages are then read out of the pipe using read(). - It should be possible to allow write() to insert data into the notification pipes too, but this is currently disabled as the kernel has to be able to insert messages into the pipe *without* holding pipe->mutex and the code to make this work needs careful auditing. - sendfile(), splice() and vmsplice() are disabled on notification pipes because of the pipe->mutex issue and also because they sometimes want to revert what they just did - but one or more notification messages might've been interleaved in the ring. - The kernel inserts messages with the wait queue spinlock held. This means that pipe_read() and pipe_write() have to take the spinlock to update the queue pointers. - Records in the buffer are binary, typed and have a length so that they can be of varying size. This allows multiple heterogeneous sources to share a common buffer; there are 16 million types available, of which I've used just a few, so there is scope for others to be used. Tags may be specified when a watchpoint is created to help distinguish the sources. - Records are filterable as types have up to 256 subtypes that can be individually filtered. Other filtration is also available. - Notification pipes don't interfere with each other; each may be bound to a different set of watches. Any particular notification will be copied to all the queues that are currently watching for it - and only those that are watching for it. - When recording a notification, the kernel will not sleep, but will rather mark a queue as having lost a message if there's insufficient space. read() will fabricate a loss notification message at an appropriate point later. - The notification pipe is created and then watchpoints are attached to it, using one of: keyctl_watch_key(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, fds[1], 0x01); watch_mount(AT_FDCWD, "/", 0, fd, 0x02); watch_sb(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", 0, fd, 0x03); where in both cases, fd indicates the queue and the number after is a tag between 0 and 255. - Watches are removed if either the notification pipe is destroyed or the watched object is destroyed. In the latter case, a message will be generated indicating the enforced watch removal. Things I want to avoid: - Introducing features that make the core VFS dependent on the network stack or networking namespaces (ie. usage of netlink). - Dumping all this stuff into dmesg and having a daemon that sits there parsing the output and distributing it as this then puts the responsibility for security into userspace and makes handling namespaces tricky. Further, dmesg might not exist or might be inaccessible inside a container. - Letting users see events they shouldn't be able to see. TESTING AND MANPAGES ==================== - The keyutils tree has a pipe-watch branch that has keyctl commands for making use of notifications. Proposed manual pages can also be found on this branch, though a couple of them really need to go to the main manpages repository instead. If the kernel supports the watching of keys, then running "make test" on that branch will cause the testing infrastructure to spawn a monitoring process on the side that monitors a notifications pipe for all the key/keyring changes induced by the tests and they'll all be checked off to make sure they happened. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/log/?h=pipe-watch - A test program is provided (samples/watch_queue/watch_test) that can be used to monitor for keyrings, mount and superblock events. Information on the notifications is simply logged to stdout" * tag 'notifications-20200601' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks selinux: Implement the watch_key security hook keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask pipe: Add notification lossage handling pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications Add sample notification program watch_queue: Add a key/keyring notification facility security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch pipe: Add general notification queue support pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion uapi: General notification queue definitions
2020-05-20fs: rename pipe_buf ->steal to ->try_stealChristoph Hellwig
And replace the arcane return value convention with a simple bool where true means success and false means failure. [AV: braino fix folded in] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-05-20fs: make the pipe_buf_operations ->confirm operation optionalChristoph Hellwig
Just return 0 for success if it is not present. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-05-20pipe: merge anon_pipe_buf*_opsChristoph Hellwig
All the op vectors are exactly the same, they are just used to encode packet or nomerge behavior. There already is a flag for the packet behavior, so just add a new one to allow for merging. Inverting it vs the previous nomerge special casing actually allows for much nicer code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-05-19pipe: Add notification lossage handlingDavid Howells
Add handling for loss of notifications by having read() insert a loss-notification message after it has read the pipe buffer that was last in the ring when the loss occurred. Lossage can come about either by running out of notification descriptors or by running out of space in the pipe ring. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-05-19pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notificationsDavid Howells
Allow a buffer to be marked such that read() must return the entire buffer in one go or return ENOBUFS. Multiple buffers can be amalgamated into a single read, but a short read will occur if the next "whole" buffer won't fit. This is useful for watch queue notifications to make sure we don't split a notification across multiple reads, especially given that we need to fabricate an overrun record under some circumstances - and that isn't in the buffers. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-05-19pipe: Add general notification queue supportDavid Howells
Make it possible to have a general notification queue built on top of a standard pipe. Notifications are 'spliced' into the pipe and then read out. splice(), vmsplice() and sendfile() are forbidden on pipes used for notifications as post_one_notification() cannot take pipe->mutex. This means that notifications could be posted in between individual pipe buffers, making iov_iter_revert() difficult to effect. The way the notification queue is used is: (1) An application opens a pipe with a special flag and indicates the number of messages it wishes to be able to queue at once (this can only be set once): pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE); ioctl(fds[0], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth); (2) The application then uses poll() and read() as normal to extract data from the pipe. read() will return multiple notifications if the buffer is big enough, but it will not split a notification across buffers - rather it will return a short read or EMSGSIZE. Notification messages include a length in the header so that the caller can split them up. Each message has a header that describes it: struct watch_notification { __u32 type:24; __u32 subtype:8; __u32 info; }; The type indicates the source (eg. mount tree changes, superblock events, keyring changes, block layer events) and the subtype indicates the event type (eg. mount, unmount; EIO, EDQUOT; link, unlink). The info field indicates a number of things, including the entry length, an ID assigned to a watchpoint contributing to this buffer and type-specific flags. Supplementary data, such as the key ID that generated an event, can be attached in additional slots. The maximum message size is 127 bytes. Messages may not be padded or aligned, so there is no guarantee, for example, that the notification type will be on a 4-byte bounary. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-04-02mm: kmem: rename memcg_kmem_(un)charge() into memcg_kmem_(un)charge_page()Roman Gushchin
Rename (__)memcg_kmem_(un)charge() into (__)memcg_kmem_(un)charge_page() to better reflect what they are actually doing: 1) call __memcg_kmem_(un)charge_memcg() to actually charge or uncharge the current memcg 2) set or clear the PageKmemcg flag Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200109202659.752357-4-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-02-18pipe: make sure to wake up everybody when the last reader/writer closesLinus Torvalds
Andrei Vagin reported that commit 0ddad21d3e99 ("pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writing") broke one of the CRIU tests. He even has a trivial reproducer: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> int main() { int p[2]; pid_t p1, p2; int status; if (pipe(p) == -1) return 1; p1 = fork(); if (p1 == 0) { close(p[1]); read(p[0], &status, sizeof(status)); return 0; } p2 = fork(); if (p2 == 0) { close(p[1]); read(p[0], &status, sizeof(status)); return 0; } sleep(1); close(p[1]); wait(&status); wait(&status); return 0; } and the problem - once he points it out - is obvious. We use these nice exclusive waits, but when the last writer goes away, it then needs to wake up _every_ reader (and conversely, the last reader disappearing needs to wake every writer, of course). In fact, when going through this, we had several small oddities around how to wake things. We did in fact wake every reader when we changed the size of the pipe buffers. But that's entirely pointless, since that just acts as a possible source of new space - no new data to read. And when we change the size of the buffer, we don't need to wake all writers even when we add space - that case acts just as if somebody made space by reading, and any writer that finds itself not filling it up entirely will wake the next one. On the other hand, on the exit path, we tried to limit the wakeups with the proper poll keys etc, which is entirely pointless, because at that point we obviously need to wake up everybody. So don't do that: just wake up everybody - but only do that if the counts changed to zero. So fix those non-IO wakeups to be more proper: space change doesn't add any new data, but it might make room for writers, so it wakes up a writer. And the actual changes to reader/writer counts should wake up everybody, since everybody is affected (ie readers will all see EOF if the writers have gone away, and writers will all get EPIPE if all readers have gone away). Fixes: 0ddad21d3e99 ("pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writing") Reported-and-tested-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-02-08pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writingLinus Torvalds
This makes the pipe code use separate wait-queues and exclusive waiting for readers and writers, avoiding a nasty thundering herd problem when there are lots of readers waiting for data on a pipe (or, less commonly, lots of writers waiting for a pipe to have space). While this isn't a common occurrence in the traditional "use a pipe as a data transport" case, where you typically only have a single reader and a single writer process, there is one common special case: using a pipe as a source of "locking tokens" rather than for data communication. In particular, the GNU make jobserver code ends up using a pipe as a way to limit parallelism, where each job consumes a token by reading a byte from the jobserver pipe, and releases the token by writing a byte back to the pipe. This pattern is fairly traditional on Unix, and works very well, but will waste a lot of time waking up a lot of processes when only a single reader needs to be woken up when a writer releases a new token. A simplified test-case of just this pipe interaction is to create 64 processes, and then pass a single token around between them (this test-case also intentionally passes another token that gets ignored to test the "wake up next" logic too, in case anybody wonders about it): #include <unistd.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { int fd[2], counters[2]; pipe(fd); counters[0] = 0; counters[1] = -1; write(fd[1], counters, sizeof(counters)); /* 64 processes */ fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); do { int i; read(fd[0], &i, sizeof(i)); if (i < 0) continue; counters[0] = i+1; write(fd[1], counters, (1+(i & 1)) *sizeof(int)); } while (counters[0] < 1000000); return 0; } and in a perfect world, passing that token around should only cause one context switch per transfer, when the writer of a token causes a directed wakeup of just a single reader. But with the "writer wakes all readers" model we traditionally had, on my test box the above case causes more than an order of magnitude more scheduling: instead of the expected ~1M context switches, "perf stat" shows 231,852.37 msec task-clock # 15.857 CPUs utilized 11,250,961 context-switches # 0.049 M/sec 616,304 cpu-migrations # 0.003 M/sec 1,648 page-faults # 0.007 K/sec 1,097,903,998,514 cycles # 4.735 GHz 120,781,778,352 instructions # 0.11 insn per cycle 27,997,056,043 branches # 120.754 M/sec 283,581,233 branch-misses # 1.01% of all branches 14.621273891 seconds time elapsed 0.018243000 seconds user 3.611468000 seconds sys before this commit. After this commit, I get 5,229.55 msec task-clock # 3.072 CPUs utilized 1,212,233 context-switches # 0.232 M/sec 103,951 cpu-migrations # 0.020 M/sec 1,328 page-faults # 0.254 K/sec 21,307,456,166 cycles # 4.074 GHz 12,947,819,999 instructions # 0.61 insn per cycle 2,881,985,678 branches # 551.096 M/sec 64,267,015 branch-misses # 2.23% of all branches 1.702148350 seconds time elapsed 0.004868000 seconds user 0.110786000 seconds sys instead. Much better. [ Note! This kernel improvement seems to be very good at triggering a race condition in the make jobserver (in GNU make 4.2.1) for me. It's a long known bug that was fixed back in June 2017 by GNU make commit b552b0525198 ("[SV 51159] Use a non-blocking read with pselect to avoid hangs."). But there wasn't a new release of GNU make until 4.3 on Jan 19 2020, so a number of distributions may still have the buggy version. Some have backported the fix to their 4.2.1 release, though, and even without the fix it's quite timing-dependent whether the bug actually is hit. ] Josh Triplett says: "I've been hammering on your pipe fix patch (switching to exclusive wait queues) for a month or so, on several different systems, and I've run into no issues with it. The patch *substantially* improves parallel build times on large (~100 CPU) systems, both with parallel make and with other things that use make's pipe-based jobserver. All current distributions (including stable and long-term stable distributions) have versions of GNU make that no longer have the jobserver bug" Tested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-22pipe: fix empty pipe check in pipe_write()Jan Stancek
LTP pipeio_1 test is hanging with v5.5-rc2-385-gb8e382a185eb, with read side observing empty pipe and sleeping and write side running out of space and then sleeping as well. In this scenario there are 5 writers and 1 reader. Problem is that after pipe_write() reacquires pipe lock, it re-checks for empty pipe with potentially stale 'head' and doesn't wake up read side anymore. pipe->tail can advance beyond 'head', because there are multiple writers. Use pipe->head for empty pipe check after reacquiring lock to observe current state. Testing: With patch, LTP pipeio_1 ran successfully in loop for 1 hour. Without patch it hanged within a minute. Fixes: 1b6b26ae7053 ("pipe: fix and clarify pipe write wakeup logic") Reported-by: Rachel Sibley <rasibley@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-11pipe: simplify signal handling in pipe_read() and add commentsLinus Torvalds
There's no need to separately check for signals while inside the locked region, since we're going to do "wait_event_interruptible()" right afterwards anyway, and the error handling is much simpler there. The check for whether we had already read anything was also redundant, since we no longer do the odd merging of reads when there are pending writers. But perhaps more importantly, this adds commentary about why we still need to wake up possible writers even though we didn't read any data, and why we can skip all the finishing touches now if we get a signal (or had a signal pending) while waiting for more data. [ This is a split-out cleanup from my "make pipe IO use exclusive wait queues" thing, which I can't apply because it triggers a nasty bug in the GNU make jobserver - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-07pipe: don't use 'pipe_wait() for basic pipe IOLinus Torvalds
pipe_wait() may be simple, but since it relies on the pipe lock, it means that we have to do the wakeup while holding the lock. That's unfortunate, because the very first thing the waked entity will want to do is to get the pipe lock for itself. So get rid of the pipe_wait() usage by simply releasing the pipe lock, doing the wakeup (if required) and then using wait_event_interruptible() to wait on the right condition instead. wait_event_interruptible() handles races on its own by comparing the wakeup condition before and after adding itself to the wait queue, so you can use an optimistic unlocked condition for it. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-07pipe: remove 'waiting_writers' merging logicLinus Torvalds
This code is ancient, and goes back to when we only had a single page for the pipe buffers. The exact history is hidden in the mists of time (ie "before git", and in fact predates the BK repository too). At that long-ago point in time, it actually helped to try to merge big back-and-forth pipe reads and writes, and not limit pipe reads to the single pipe buffer in length just because that was all we had at a time. However, since then we've expanded the pipe buffers to multiple pages, and this logic really doesn't seem to make sense. And a lot of it is somewhat questionable (ie "hmm, the user asked for a non-blocking read, but we see that there's a writer pending, so let's wait anyway to get the extra data that the writer will have"). But more importantly, it makes the "go to sleep" logic much less obvious, and considering the wakeup issues we've had, I want to make for less of those kinds of things. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-07pipe: fix and clarify pipe read wakeup logicLinus Torvalds
This is the read side version of the previous commit: it simplifies the logic to only wake up waiting writers when necessary, and makes sure to use a synchronous wakeup. This time not so much for GNU make jobserver reasons (that pipe never fills up), but simply to get the writer going quickly again. A bit less verbose commentary this time, if only because I assume that the write side commentary isn't going to be ignored if you touch this code. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-07pipe: fix and clarify pipe write wakeup logicLinus Torvalds
The pipe rework ends up having been extra painful, partly becaused of actual bugs with ordering and caching of the pipe state, but also because of subtle performance issues. In particular, the pipe rework caused the kernel build to inexplicably slow down. The reason turns out to be that the GNU make jobserver (which limits the parallelism of the build) uses a pipe to implement a "token" system: a parallel submake will read a character from the pipe to get the job token before starting a new job, and will write a character back to the pipe when it is done. The overall job limit is thus easily controlled by just writing the appropriate number of initial token characters into the pipe. But to work well, that really means that the old behavior of write wakeups being synchronous (WF_SYNC) is very important - when the pipe writer wakes up a reader, we want the reader to actually get scheduled immediately. Otherwise you lose the parallelism of the build. The pipe rework lost that synchronous wakeup on write, and we had clearly all forgotten the reasons and rules for it. This rewrites the pipe write wakeup logic to do the required Wsync wakeups, but also clarifies the logic and avoids extraneous wakeups. It also ends up addign a number of comments about what oit does and why, so that we hopefully don't end up forgetting about this next time we change this code. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-07pipe: fix poll/select race introduced by the pipe reworkLinus Torvalds
The kernel wait queues have a basic rule to them: you add yourself to the wait-queue first, and then you check the things that you're going to wait on. That avoids the races with the event you're waiting for. The same goes for poll/select logic: the "poll_wait()" goes first, and then you check the things you're polling for. Of course, if you use locking, the ordering doesn't matter since the lock will serialize with anything that changes the state you're looking at. That's not the case here, though. So move the poll_wait() first in pipe_poll(), before you start looking at the pipe state. Fixes: 8cefc107ca54 ("pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length") Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-05Merge branch 'pipe-rework' (patches from David Howells)Linus Torvalds
Merge two fixes for the pipe rework from David Howells: "Here are a couple of patches to fix bugs syzbot found in the pipe changes: - An assertion check will sometimes trip when polling a pipe because the ring size and indices used are approximate and may be being changed simultaneously. An equivalent approximate calculation was done previously, but without the assertion check, so I've just dropped the check. To make it accurate, the pipe mutex would need to be taken or the spin lock could be used - but usage of the spinlock would need to be rolled out into splice, iov_iter and other places for that. - The index mask and the max_usage values cannot be cached across pipe_wait() as F_SETPIPE_SZ could have been called during the wait. This can cause pipe_write() to break" * pipe-rework: pipe: Fix missing mask update after pipe_wait() pipe: Remove assertion from pipe_poll()
2019-12-05pipe: Fix missing mask update after pipe_wait()David Howells
Fix pipe_write() to not cache the ring index mask and max_usage as their values are invalidated by calling pipe_wait() because the latter function drops the pipe lock, thereby allowing F_SETPIPE_SZ change them. Without this, pipe_write() may subsequently miscalculate the array indices and pipe fullness, leading to an oops like the following: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in pipe_write+0xc25/0xe10 fs/pipe.c:481 Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880771167a8 by task syz-executor.3/7987 ... CPU: 1 PID: 7987 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc2-syzkaller #0 ... Call Trace: pipe_write+0xc25/0xe10 fs/pipe.c:481 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1895 [inline] new_sync_write+0x3fd/0x7e0 fs/read_write.c:483 __vfs_write+0x94/0x110 fs/read_write.c:496 vfs_write+0x18a/0x520 fs/read_write.c:558 ksys_write+0x105/0x220 fs/read_write.c:611 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:623 [inline] __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:620 [inline] __x64_sys_write+0x6e/0xb0 fs/read_write.c:620 do_syscall_64+0xca/0x5d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe This is not a problem for pipe_read() as the mask is recalculated on each pass of the loop, after pipe_wait() has been called. Fixes: 8cefc107ca54 ("pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length") Reported-by: syzbot+838eb0878ffd51f27c41@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> [ Changed it to use a temporary variable 'mask' to avoid long lines -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-05pipe: Remove assertion from pipe_poll()David Howells
An assertion check was added to pipe_poll() to make sure that the ring occupancy isn't seen to overflow the ring size. However, since no locks are held when the three values are read, it is possible for F_SETPIPE_SZ to intervene and muck up the calculation, thereby causing the oops. Fix this by simply removing the assertion and accepting that the calculation might be approximate. Note that the previous code also had a similar issue, though there was no assertion check, since the occupancy counter and the ring size were not read with a lock held, so it's possible that the poll check might have malfunctioned then too. Also wake up all the waiters so that they can reissue their checks if there was a competing read or write. Fixes: 8cefc107ca54 ("pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length") Reported-by: syzbot+d37abaade33a934f16f2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-11-30Merge tag 'notifications-pipe-prep-20191115' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs Pull pipe rework from David Howells: "This is my set of preparatory patches for building a general notification queue on top of pipes. It makes a number of significant changes: - It removes the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key() as this is always 1. This prepares for the next step: - Adds wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked() so that poll can be woken up from a function that's holding the poll waitqueue spinlock. - Change the pipe buffer ring to be managed in terms of unbounded head and tail indices rather than bounded index and length. This means that reading the pipe only needs to modify one index, not two. - A selection of helper functions are provided to query the state of the pipe buffer, plus a couple to apply updates to the pipe indices. - The pipe ring is allowed to have kernel-reserved slots. This allows many notification messages to be spliced in by the kernel without allowing userspace to pin too many pages if it writes to the same pipe. - Advance the head and tail indices inside the pipe waitqueue lock and use wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked() to poke poll without having to take the lock twice. - Rearrange pipe_write() to preallocate the buffer it is going to write into and then drop the spinlock. This allows kernel notifications to then be added the ring whilst it is filling the buffer it allocated. The read side is stalled because the pipe mutex is still held. - Don't wake up readers on a pipe if there was already data in it when we added more. - Don't wake up writers on a pipe if the ring wasn't full before we removed a buffer" * tag 'notifications-pipe-prep-20191115' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: pipe: Remove sync on wake_ups pipe: Increase the writer-wakeup threshold to reduce context-switch count pipe: Check for ring full inside of the spinlock in pipe_write() pipe: Remove redundant wakeup from pipe_write() pipe: Rearrange sequence in pipe_write() to preallocate slot pipe: Conditionalise wakeup in pipe_read() pipe: Advance tail pointer inside of wait spinlock in pipe_read() pipe: Allow pipes to have kernel-reserved slots pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length Add wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked() Remove the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key() pipe: Reduce #inclusion of pipe_fs_i.h
2019-11-25vfs: mark pipes and sockets as stream-like file descriptorsLinus Torvalds
In commit 3975b097e577 ("convert stream-like files -> stream_open, even if they use noop_llseek") Kirill used a coccinelle script to change "nonseekable_open()" to "stream_open()", which changed the trivial cases of stream-like file descriptors to the new model with FMODE_STREAM. However, the two big cases - sockets and pipes - don't actually have that trivial pattern at all, and were thus never converted to FMODE_STREAM even though it makes lots of sense to do so. That's particularly true when looking forward to the next change: getting rid of FMODE_ATOMIC_POS entirely, and just using FMODE_STREAM to decide whether f_pos updates are needed or not. And if they are, we'll always do them atomically. This came up because KCSAN (correctly) noted that the non-locked f_pos updates are data races: they are clearly benign for the case where we don't care, but it would be good to just not have that issue exist at all. Note that the reason we used FMODE_ATOMIC_POS originally is that only doing it for the minimal required case is "safer" in that it's possible that the f_pos locking can cause unnecessary serialization across the whole write() call. And in the worst case, that kind of serialization can cause deadlock issues: think writers that need readers to empty the state using the same file descriptor. [ Note that the locking is per-file descriptor - because it protects "f_pos", which is obviously per-file descriptor - so it only affects cases where you literally use the same file descriptor to both read and write. So a regular pipe that has separate reading and writing file descriptors doesn't really have this situation even though it's the obvious case of "reader empties what a bit writer concurrently fills" But we want to make pipes as being stream-line anyway, because we don't want the unnecessary overhead of locking, and because a named pipe can be (ab-)used by reading and writing to the same file descriptor. ] There are likely a lot of other cases that might want FMODE_STREAM, and looking for ".llseek = no_llseek" users and other cases that don't have an lseek file operation at all and making them use "stream_open()" might be a good idea. But pipes and sockets are likely to be the two main cases. Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> Cc: Eic Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>