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      fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run... · 10dce8af
      Kirill Smelkov 提交于
      fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock
      
      Commit 9c225f26 ("vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX") added
      locking for file.f_pos access and in particular made concurrent read and
      write not possible - now both those functions take f_pos lock for the
      whole run, and so if e.g. a read is blocked waiting for data, write will
      deadlock waiting for that read to complete.
      
      This caused regression for stream-like files where previously read and
      write could run simultaneously, but after that patch could not do so
      anymore. See e.g. commit 581d21a2 ("xenbus: fix deadlock on writes
      to /proc/xen/xenbus") which fixes such regression for particular case of
      /proc/xen/xenbus.
      
      The patch that added f_pos lock in 2014 did so to guarantee POSIX thread
      safety for read/write/lseek and added the locking to file descriptors of
      all regular files. In 2014 that thread-safety problem was not new as it
      was already discussed earlier in 2006.
      
      However even though 2006'th version of Linus's patch was adding f_pos
      locking "only for files that are marked seekable with FMODE_LSEEK (thus
      avoiding the stream-like objects like pipes and sockets)", the 2014
      version - the one that actually made it into the tree as 9c225f26 -
      is doing so irregardless of whether a file is seekable or not.
      
      See
      
          https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/53022DB1.4070805@gmail.com/
          https://lwn.net/Articles/180387
          https://lwn.net/Articles/180396
      
      for historic context.
      
      The reason that it did so is, probably, that there are many files that
      are marked non-seekable, but e.g. their read implementation actually
      depends on knowing current position to correctly handle the read. Some
      examples:
      
      	kernel/power/user.c		snapshot_read
      	fs/debugfs/file.c		u32_array_read
      	fs/fuse/control.c		fuse_conn_waiting_read + ...
      	drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c	atk_debugfs_ggrp_read
      	arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c		hypfs_read_iter
      	...
      
      Despite that, many nonseekable_open users implement read and write with
      pure stream semantics - they don't depend on passed ppos at all. And for
      those cases where read could wait for something inside, it creates a
      situation similar to xenbus - the write could be never made to go until
      read is done, and read is waiting for some, potentially external, event,
      for potentially unbounded time -> deadlock.
      
      Besides xenbus, there are 14 such places in the kernel that I've found
      with semantic patch (see below):
      
      	drivers/xen/evtchn.c:667:8-24: ERROR: evtchn_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c:963:8-24: ERROR: capi_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/input/evdev.c:527:1-17: ERROR: evdev_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c:1685:7-23: ERROR: cm4000_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	net/rfkill/core.c:1146:8-24: ERROR: rfkill_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c:488:1-17: ERROR: fs3270_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c:310:1-17: ERROR: ld_usb_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/hid/uhid.c:635:1-17: ERROR: uhid_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c:80:1-17: ERROR: batadv_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c:198:1-17: ERROR: lirc_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/leds/uleds.c:77:1-17: ERROR: uleds_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/input/misc/uinput.c:400:1-17: ERROR: uinput_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c:985:7-23: ERROR: umad_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      	drivers/gnss/core.c:45:1-17: ERROR: gnss_fops: .read() can deadlock .write()
      
      In addition to the cases above another regression caused by f_pos
      locking is that now FUSE filesystems that implement open with
      FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE flag, can no longer implement bidirectional
      stream-like files - for the same reason as above e.g. read can deadlock
      write locking on file.f_pos in the kernel.
      
      FUSE's FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE was added in 2008 in a7c1b990 ("fuse:
      implement nonseekable open") to support OSSPD. OSSPD implements /dev/dsp
      in userspace with FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE flag, with corresponding read and
      write routines not depending on current position at all, and with both
      read and write being potentially blocking operations:
      
      See
      
          https://github.com/libfuse/osspd
          https://lwn.net/Articles/308445
      
          https://github.com/libfuse/osspd/blob/14a9cff0/osspd.c#L1406
          https://github.com/libfuse/osspd/blob/14a9cff0/osspd.c#L1438-L1477
          https://github.com/libfuse/osspd/blob/14a9cff0/osspd.c#L1479-L1510
      
      Corresponding libfuse example/test also describes FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE as
      "somewhat pipe-like files ..." with read handler not using offset.
      However that test implements only read without write and cannot exercise
      the deadlock scenario:
      
          https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/fuse-3.4.2-3-ga1bff7d/example/poll.c#L124-L131
          https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/fuse-3.4.2-3-ga1bff7d/example/poll.c#L146-L163
          https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/fuse-3.4.2-3-ga1bff7d/example/poll.c#L209-L216
      
      I've actually hit the read vs write deadlock for real while implementing
      my FUSE filesystem where there is /head/watch file, for which open
      creates separate bidirectional socket-like stream in between filesystem
      and its user with both read and write being later performed
      simultaneously. And there it is semantically not easy to split the
      stream into two separate read-only and write-only channels:
      
          https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/wendelin.core/blob/f13aa600/wcfs/wcfs.go#L88-169
      
      Let's fix this regression. The plan is:
      
      1. We can't change nonseekable_open to include &~FMODE_ATOMIC_POS -
         doing so would break many in-kernel nonseekable_open users which
         actually use ppos in read/write handlers.
      
      2. Add stream_open() to kernel to open stream-like non-seekable file
         descriptors. Read and write on such file descriptors would never use
         nor change ppos. And with that property on stream-like files read and
         write will be running without taking f_pos lock - i.e. read and write
         could be running simultaneously.
      
      3. With semantic patch search and convert to stream_open all in-kernel
         nonseekable_open users for which read and write actually do not
         depend on ppos and where there is no other methods in file_operations
         which assume @offset access.
      
      4. Add FOPEN_STREAM to fs/fuse/ and open in-kernel file-descriptors via
         steam_open if that bit is present in filesystem open reply.
      
         It was tempting to change fs/fuse/ open handler to use stream_open
         instead of nonseekable_open on just FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE flags, but
         grepping through Debian codesearch shows users of FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE,
         and in particular GVFS which actually uses offset in its read and
         write handlers
      
      	https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=-%3Enonseekable+%3D
      	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1080
      	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1247-1346
      	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1399-1481
      
         so if we would do such a change it will break a real user.
      
      5. Add stream_open and FOPEN_STREAM handling to stable kernels starting
         from v3.14+ (the kernel where 9c225f26 first appeared).
      
         This will allow to patch OSSPD and other FUSE filesystems that
         provide stream-like files to return FOPEN_STREAM | FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE
         in their open handler and this way avoid the deadlock on all kernel
         versions. This should work because fs/fuse/ ignores unknown open
         flags returned from a filesystem and so passing FOPEN_STREAM to a
         kernel that is not aware of this flag cannot hurt. In turn the kernel
         that is not aware of FOPEN_STREAM will be < v3.14 where just
         FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE is sufficient to implement streams without read vs
         write deadlock.
      
      This patch adds stream_open, converts /proc/xen/xenbus to it and adds
      semantic patch to automatically locate in-kernel places that are either
      required to be converted due to read vs write deadlock, or that are just
      safe to be converted because read and write do not use ppos and there
      are no other funky methods in file_operations.
      
      Regarding semantic patch I've verified each generated change manually -
      that it is correct to convert - and each other nonseekable_open instance
      left - that it is either not correct to convert there, or that it is not
      converted due to current stream_open.cocci limitations.
      
      The script also does not convert files that should be valid to convert,
      but that currently have .llseek = noop_llseek or generic_file_llseek for
      unknown reason despite file being opened with nonseekable_open (e.g.
      drivers/input/mousedev.c)
      
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yongzhi Pan <panyongzhi@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
      Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
      Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
      Cc: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
      Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NKirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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