History log of /linux-master/fs/afs/validation.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# b74c02a3 13-Mar-2024 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix occasional rmdir-then-VNOVNODE with generic/011

Sometimes generic/011 causes kafs to follow up an FS.RemoveDir RPC call by
spending around a second sending a slew of FS.FetchStatus RPC calls to the
directory just deleted that then abort with VNOVNODE, indicating deletion
of the target directory.

This seems to stem from userspace attempting to stat the directory or
something in it:

afs_select_fileserver+0x46d/0xaa2
afs_wait_for_operation+0x12/0x17e
afs_fetch_status+0x56/0x75
afs_validate+0xfb/0x240
afs_permission+0xef/0x1b0
inode_permission+0x90/0x139
link_path_walk.part.0.constprop.0+0x6f/0x2f0
path_lookupat+0x4c/0xfa
filename_lookup+0x63/0xd7
vfs_statx+0x62/0x13f
vfs_fstatat+0x72/0x8a

The issue appears to be that afs_dir_remove_subdir() marks the callback
promise as being cancelled by setting the expiry time to AFS_NO_CB_PROMISE
- which then confuses afs_validate() which sends the FetchStatus to try and
get a new one before it checks for the AFS_VNODE_DELETED flag which
indicates that we know the directory got deleted.

Fix this by:

(1) Make afs_check_validity() return true if AFS_VNODE_DELETED is set, and
then tweak the return from afs_validate() if the DELETED flag is set.

(2) Move the AFS_VNODE_DELETED check in afs_validate() up above the
expiration check to immediately after we've grabbed the validate_lock.

Fixes: 453924de6212 ("afs: Overhaul invalidation handling to better support RO volumes")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240313081505.3060173-3-dhowells@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 453924de 08-Nov-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Overhaul invalidation handling to better support RO volumes

Overhaul the third party-induced invalidation handling, making use of the
previously added volume-level event counters (cb_scrub and cb_ro_snapshot)
that are now being parsed out of the VolSync record returned by the
fileserver in many of its replies.

This allows better handling of RO (and Backup) volumes. Since these are
snapshot of a RW volume that are updated atomically simultantanously across
all servers that host them, they only require a single callback promise for
the entire volume. The currently upstream code assumes that RO volumes
operate in the same manner as RW volumes, and that each file has its own
individual callback - which means that it does a status fetch for *every*
file in a RO volume, whether or not the volume got "released" (volume
callback breaks can occur for other reasons too, such as the volumeserver
taking ownership of a volume from a fileserver).

To this end, make the following changes:

(1) Change the meaning of the volume's cb_v_break counter so that it is
now a hint that we need to issue a status fetch to work out the state
of a volume. cb_v_break is incremented by volume break callbacks and
by server initialisation callbacks.

(2) Add a second counter, cb_v_check, to the afs_volume struct such that
if this differs from cb_v_break, we need to do a check. When the
check is complete, cb_v_check is advanced to what cb_v_break was at
the start of the status fetch.

(3) Move the list of mmap'd vnodes to the volume and trigger removal of
PTEs that map to files on a volume break rather than on a server
break.

(4) When a server reinitialisation callback comes in, use the
server-to-volume reverse mapping added in a preceding patch to iterate
over all the volumes using that server and clear the volume callback
promises for that server and the general volume promise as a whole to
trigger reanalysis.

(5) Replace the AFS_VNODE_CB_PROMISED flag with an AFS_NO_CB_PROMISE
(TIME64_MIN) value in the cb_expires_at field, reducing the number of
checks we need to make.

(6) Change afs_check_validity() to quickly see if various event counters
have been incremented or if the vnode or volume callback promise is
due to expire/has expired without making any changes to the state.
That is now left to afs_validate() as this may get more complicated in
future as we may have to examine server records too.

(7) Overhaul afs_validate() so that it does a single status fetch if we
need to check the state of either the vnode or the volume - and do so
under appropriate locking. The function does the following steps:

(A) If the vnode/volume is no longer seen as valid, then we take the
vnode validation lock and, if the volume promise has expired, the
volume check lock also. The latter prevents redundant checks being
made to find out if a new version of the volume got released.

(B) If a previous RPC call found that the volsync changed unexpectedly
or that a RO volume was updated, then we unmap all PTEs pointing to
the file to stop mmap being used for access.

(C) If the vnode is still seen to be of uncertain validity, then we
perform an FS.FetchStatus RPC op to jointly update the volume status
and the vnode status. This assessment is done as part of parsing the
reply:

If the RO volume creation timestamp advances, cb_ro_snapshot is
incremented; if either the creation or update timestamps changes in
an unexpected way, the cb_scrub counter is incremented

If the Data Version returned doesn't match the copy we have
locally, then we ask for the pagecache to be zapped. This takes
care of handling RO update.

(D) If cb_scrub differs between volume and vnode, the vnode's
pagecache is zapped and the vnode's cb_scrub is updated unless the
file is marked as having been deleted.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 16069e13 05-Nov-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Parse the VolSync record in the reply of a number of RPC ops

A number of fileserver RPC operations return a VolSync record as part of
their reply that gives some information about the state of the volume being
accessed, including:

(1) A volume Creation timestamp. For an RW volume, this is the time at
which the volume was created; if it changes, the RW volume was
presumably restored from a backup and all cached data should be
scrubbed as Data Version numbers could regress on the files in the
volume.

For an RO volume, this is the time it was last snapshotted from the RW
volume. It is expected to advance each time this happens; if it
regresses, cached data should be scrubbed.

(2) A volume Update timestamp (Auristor only). For an RW volume, this is
updated any time any change is made to a volume or its contents. If
it regresses, all cached data must be scrubbed.

For an RO volume, this is a copy of the RW volume's Update timestamp
at the point of snapshotting. It can be used as a version number when
checking to see if a callback on a RO volume was due to a snapshot.
If it regresses, all cached data must be scrubbed.

but this is currently not made use of by the in-kernel afs filesystem.

Make the afs filesystem use this by:

(1) Add an update time field to the afs_volsync struct and use a value of
TIME64_MIN in both that and the creation time to indicate that they
are unset.

(2) Add creation and update time fields to the afs_volume struct and use
this to track the two timestamps.

(3) Add a volsync_lock mutex to the afs_volume struct to control
modification access for when we detect a change in these values.

(3) Add a 'pre-op volsync' struct to the afs_operation struct to record
the state of the volume tracking before the op.

(4) Add a new counter, cb_scrub, to the afs_volume struct to count events
that require all data to be scrubbed. A copy is placed in the
afs_vnode struct (inode) and if they no longer match, a scrub takes
place.

(5) When the result of an operation is being parsed, parse the VolSync
data too, if it is provided. Note that the two timestamps are handled
separately, since they don't work in quite the same way.

- If the afs_volume tracking is unset, just set it and do nothing
else.

- If the result timestamps are the same as the ones in afs_volume, do
nothing.

- If the timestamps regress, increment cb_scrub if not already done
so.

- If the creation timestamp on a RW volume changes, increment cb_scrub
if not already done so.

- If the creation timestamp on a RO volume advances, update the server
list and see if the current server has been excluded, if so reissue
the op. Once over half of the replication sites have been updated,
increment cb_ro_snapshot to indicate updates may be required and
switch over to excluding unupdated replication sites.

- If the creation timestamp on a Backup volume advances, just
increment cb_ro_snapshot to trigger updates.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# dfa0a449 07-Nov-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Move the vnode/volume validity checking code into its own file

Move the code that does validity checking of vnodes and volumes with
respect to third-party changes into its own file.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org