Apparently, there are some applications that use IN_DELETE event as an
invalidation mechanism and expect that if they try to open a file with
the name reported with the delete event, that it should not contain the
content of the deleted file.
Commit 49246466a9 ("fsnotify: move fsnotify_nameremove() hook out of
d_delete()") moved the fsnotify delete hook before d_delete() so fsnotify
will have access to a positive dentry.
This allowed a race where opening the deleted file via cached dentry
is now possible after receiving the IN_DELETE event.
To fix the regression, create a new hook fsnotify_delete() that takes
the unlinked inode as an argument and use a helper d_delete_notify() to
pin the inode, so we can pass it to fsnotify_delete() after d_delete().
Backporting hint: this regression is from v5.3. Although patch will
apply with only trivial conflicts to v5.4 and v5.10, it won't build,
because fsnotify_delete() implementation is different in each of those
versions (see fsnotify_link()).
A follow up patch will fix the fsnotify_unlink/rmdir() calls in pseudo
filesystem that do not need to call d_delete().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220120215305.282577-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Reported-by: Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/YeNyzoDM5hP5LtGW@visor/
Fixes: 49246466a9 ("fsnotify: move fsnotify_nameremove() hook out of d_delete()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.3+
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The dnotify FS_DN_RENAME event is used to request notification about
a move within the same parent directory and was always coupled with
the FS_MOVED_FROM event.
Rename the FS_DN_RENAME event flag to FS_RENAME, decouple it from
FS_MOVED_FROM and report it with the moved dentry instead of the moved
inode, so it has the information about both old and new parent and name.
Generate the FS_RENAME event regardless of same parent dir and apply
the "same parent" rule in the generic fsnotify_handle_event() helper
that is used to call backends with ->handle_inode_event() method
(i.e. dnotify). The ->handle_inode_event() method is not rich enough to
report both old and new parent and name anyway.
The enriched event is reported to fanotify over the ->handle_event()
method with the old and new dir inode marks in marks array slots for
ITER_TYPE_INODE and a new iter type slot ITER_TYPE_INODE2.
The enriched event will be used for reporting old and new parent+name to
fanotify groups with FAN_RENAME events.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129201537.1932819-5-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Define a new data type to pass for event - FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY.
Use it to pass the dentry instead of it's ->d_inode where available.
This is needed in preparation to the refactor to retrieve the super
block from the data field. In some cases (i.e. mkdir in kernfs), the
data inode comes from a negative dentry, such that no super block
information would be available. By receiving the dentry itself, instead
of the inode, fsnotify can derive the super block even on these cases.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211025192746.66445-3-krisman@collabora.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
[Expand explanation in commit message]
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Remove the unneeded check for positive source dentry in
fsnotify_move().
fsnotify_move() hook is mostly called from vfs_rename() under
lock_rename() and vfs_rename() starts with may_delete() test that
verifies positive source dentry. The only other caller of
fsnotify_move() - debugfs_rename() also verifies positive source.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200716084230.30611-17-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Similar to events "on child" to watching directory, send event
with parent/name info if sb/mount/non-dir marks are interested in
parent/name info.
The FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD flag can be set on sb/mount/non-dir marks to specify
interest in parent/name info for events on non-directory inodes.
Events on "orphan" children (disconnected dentries) are sent without
parent/name info.
Events on directories are sent with parent/name info only if the parent
directory is watching.
After this change, even groups that do not subscribe to events on
children could get an event with mark iterator type TYPE_CHILD and
without mark iterator type TYPE_INODE if fanotify has marks on the same
objects.
dnotify and inotify event handlers can already cope with that situation.
audit does not subscribe to events that are possible on child, so won't
get to this situation. nfsd does not access the marks iterator from its
event handler at the moment, so it is not affected.
This is a bit too fragile, so we should prepare all groups to cope with
mark type TYPE_CHILD preferably using a generic helper.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200716084230.30611-16-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The arguments of fsnotify() are overloaded and mean different things
for different event types.
Replace the to_tell argument with separate arguments @dir and @inode,
because we may be sending to both dir and child. Using the @data
argument to pass the child is not enough, because dirent events pass
this argument (for audit), but we do not report to child.
Document the new fsnotify() function argumenets.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200722125849.17418-7-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
It was never enabled in uapi and its functionality is about to be
superseded by events FAN_CREATE, FAN_DELETE, FAN_MOVE with group
flag FAN_REPORT_NAME.
Keep a place holder variable name_event instead of removing the
name recording code since it will be used by the new events.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200708111156.24659-17-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
All (two) callers of fsnotify_parent() also call fsnotify() to notify
the child inode. Move the second fsnotify() call into fsnotify_parent().
This will allow more flexibility in making decisions about which of the
two event falvors should be sent.
Using 'goto notify_child' in the inline helper seems a bit strange, but
it mimics the code in __fsnotify_parent() for clarity and the goto
pattern will become less strage after following patches are applied.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200708111156.24659-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The fsnotify paths are trivial to hit even when there are no watchers and
they are surprisingly expensive. For example, every successful vfs_write()
hits fsnotify_modify which calls both fsnotify_parent and fsnotify unless
FMODE_NONOTIFY is set which is an internal flag invisible to userspace.
As it stands, fsnotify_parent is a guaranteed functional call even if there
are no watchers and fsnotify() does a substantial amount of unnecessary
work before it checks if there are any watchers. A perf profile showed
that applying mnt->mnt_fsnotify_mask in fnotify() was almost half of the
total samples taken in that function during a test. This patch rearranges
the fast paths to reduce the amount of work done when there are no
watchers.
The test motivating this was "perf bench sched messaging --pipe". Despite
the fact the pipes are anonymous, fsnotify is still called a lot and
the overhead is noticeable even though it's completely pointless. It's
likely the overhead is negligible for real IO so this is an extreme
example. This is a comparison of hackbench using processes and pipes on
a 1-socket machine with 8 CPU threads without fanotify watchers.
5.7.0 5.7.0
vanilla fastfsnotify-v1r1
Amean 1 0.4837 ( 0.00%) 0.4630 * 4.27%*
Amean 3 1.5447 ( 0.00%) 1.4557 ( 5.76%)
Amean 5 2.6037 ( 0.00%) 2.4363 ( 6.43%)
Amean 7 3.5987 ( 0.00%) 3.4757 ( 3.42%)
Amean 12 5.8267 ( 0.00%) 5.6983 ( 2.20%)
Amean 18 8.4400 ( 0.00%) 8.1327 ( 3.64%)
Amean 24 11.0187 ( 0.00%) 10.0290 * 8.98%*
Amean 30 13.1013 ( 0.00%) 12.8510 ( 1.91%)
Amean 32 13.9190 ( 0.00%) 13.2410 ( 4.87%)
5.7.0 5.7.0
vanilla fastfsnotify-v1r1
Duration User 157.05 152.79
Duration System 1279.98 1219.32
Duration Elapsed 182.81 174.52
This is showing that the latencies are improved by roughly 2-9%. The
variability is not shown but some of these results are within the noise
as this workload heavily overloads the machine. That said, the system CPU
usage is reduced by quite a bit so it makes sense to avoid the overhead
even if it is a bit tricky to detect at times. A perf profile of just 1
group of tasks showed that 5.14% of samples taken were in either fsnotify()
or fsnotify_parent(). With the patch, 2.8% of samples were in fsnotify,
mostly function entry and the initial check for watchers. The check for
watchers is complicated enough that inlining it may be controversial.
[Amir] Slightly simplify with mnt_or_sb_mask => marks_mask
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200708111156.24659-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Dirent events are going to be supported in two flavors:
1. Directory fid info + mask that includes the specific event types
(e.g. FAN_CREATE) and an optional FAN_ONDIR flag.
2. Directory fid info + name + mask that includes only FAN_DIR_MODIFY.
To request the second event flavor, user needs to set the event type
FAN_DIR_MODIFY in the mark mask.
The first flavor is supported since kernel v5.1 for groups initialized
with flag FAN_REPORT_FID. It is intended to be used for watching
directories in "batch mode" - the watcher is notified when directory is
changed and re-scans the directory content in response. This event
flavor is stored more compactly in the event queue, so it is optimal
for workloads with frequent directory changes.
The second event flavor is intended to be used for watching large
directories, where the cost of re-scan of the directory on every change
is considered too high. The watcher getting the event with the directory
fid and entry name is expected to call fstatat(2) to query the content of
the entry after the change.
Legacy inotify events are reported with name and event mask (e.g. "foo",
FAN_CREATE | FAN_ONDIR). That can lead users to the conclusion that
there is *currently* an entry "foo" that is a sub-directory, when in fact
"foo" may be negative or non-dir by the time user gets the event.
To make it clear that the current state of the named entry is unknown,
when reporting an event with name info, fanotify obfuscates the specific
event types (e.g. create,delete,rename) and uses a common event type -
FAN_DIR_MODIFY to describe the change. This should make it harder for
users to make wrong assumptions and write buggy filesystem monitors.
At this point, name info reporting is not yet implemented, so trying to
set FAN_DIR_MODIFY in mark mask will return -EINVAL.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319151022.31456-12-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Factor out fsnotify_name() from fsnotify_dirent(), so it can also serve
link and rename events and use this helper to report all directory entry
change events.
Both helpers return void because no caller checks their return value.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319151022.31456-4-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
For all callers of fsnotify_{unlink,rmdir}(), we made sure that d_parent
and d_name are stable. Therefore, fsnotify_{unlink,rmdir}() do not need
the safety measures in fsnotify_nameremove() to stabilize parent and name.
We can now simplify those hooks and get rid of fsnotify_nameremove().
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
d_delete() was piggy backed for the fsnotify_nameremove() hook when
in fact not all callers of d_delete() care about fsnotify events.
For all callers of d_delete() that may be interested in fsnotify events,
we made sure to call one of fsnotify_{unlink,rmdir}() hooks before
calling d_delete().
Now we can move the fsnotify_nameremove() call from d_delete() to the
fsnotify_{unlink,rmdir}() hooks.
Two explicit calls to fsnotify_nameremove() from nfs/afs sillyrename
are also removed. This will cause a change of behavior - nfs/afs will
NOT generate an fsnotify delete event when renaming over a positive
dentry. This change is desirable, because it is consistent with the
behavior of all other filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
We would like to move fsnotify_nameremove() calls from d_delete()
into a higher layer where the hook makes more sense and so we can
consider every d_delete() call site individually.
Start by creating empty hook fsnotify_{unlink,rmdir}() and place
them in the proper VFS call sites. After all d_delete() call sites
will be converted to use the new hook, the new hook will generate the
delete events and fsnotify_nameremove() hook will be removed.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Pull fsnotify fixes from Jan Kara:
"Two fsnotify fixes"
* tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.2-rc1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
fsnotify: fix unlink performance regression
fsnotify: Clarify connector assignment in fsnotify_add_mark_list()
Note that in fnsotify_move() and fsnotify_link() we are guaranteed
that dentry->d_name won't change during the fsnotify() evaluation
(by having the parent directory locked exclusive), so we don't
need to fetch dentry->d_name.name in the callers. In fsnotify_dirent()
the same stability of dentry->d_name is also true, but it's a bit
more convoluted - there is one callchain (devpts_pty_new() ->
fsnotify_create() -> fsnotify_dirent()) where the parent is _not_
locked, but on devpts ->d_name of everything is unchanging; it
has neither explicit nor implicit renames.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
note that in the second (RENAME_EXCHANGE) call of fsnotify_move() in
vfs_rename() the old_dentry->d_name is guaranteed to be unchanged
throughout the evaluation of fsnotify_move() (by the fact that the
parent directory is locked exclusive), so we don't need to fetch
old_dentry->d_name.name in the caller.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
