[RFC,3/4] netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator
Commit Message
Add a function to extract the pages from a user-space supplied iterator
(UBUF- or IOVEC-type) into a BVEC-type iterator, pinning the pages as we
go.
This is useful in three situations:
(1) A userspace thread may have a sibling that unmaps or remaps the
process's VM during the operation, changing the assignment of the
pages and potentially causing an error. Pinning the pages keeps
some pages around, even if this occurs; futher, we find out at the
point of extraction if EFAULT is going to be incurred.
(2) Pages might get swapped out/discarded if not pinned, so we want to pin
them to avoid the reload causing a deadlock due to a DIO from/to an
mmapped region on the same file.
(3) The iterator may get passed to sendmsg() by the filesystem. If a
fault occurs, we may get a short write to a TCP stream that's then
tricky to recover from.
We assume that other types of iterator (eg. BVEC-, KVEC- and XARRAY-type)
are constructed only by kernel internals and that the pages are pinned in
those cases.
DISCARD- and PIPE-type iterators aren't DIO'able.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
fs/netfs/Makefile | 1 +
fs/netfs/iterator.c | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/netfs.h | 2 +
3 files changed, 97 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 fs/netfs/iterator.c
Comments
I updated the commit message to stop using pinning in a general sense:
netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator
Add a function to extract the pages from a user-space supplied iterator
(UBUF- or IOVEC-type) into a BVEC-type iterator, retaining the pages by
getting a ref on them (WRITE) or pinning them (READ) as we go.
This is useful in three situations:
(1) A userspace thread may have a sibling that unmaps or remaps the
process's VM during the operation, changing the assignment of the
pages and potentially causing an error. Retaining the pages keeps
some pages around, even if this occurs; futher, we find out at the
point of extraction if EFAULT is going to be incurred.
(2) Pages might get swapped out/discarded if not retained, so we want to
retain them to avoid the reload causing a deadlock due to a DIO
from/to an mmapped region on the same file.
(3) The iterator may get passed to sendmsg() by the filesystem. If a
fault occurs, we may get a short write to a TCP stream that's then
tricky to recover from.
We don't deal with other types of iterator here, leaving it to other
mechanisms to retain the pages (eg. PG_locked, PG_writeback and the pipe
lock).
David
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
netfs-y := \
buffered_read.o \
io.o \
+ iterator.o \
main.o \
objects.o
new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/* Iterator helpers.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2022 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ */
+
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/netfs.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
+/**
+ * netfs_extract_user_iter - Extract the pages from a user iterator into a bvec
+ * @orig: The original iterator
+ * @orig_len: The amount of iterator to copy
+ * @new: The iterator to be set up
+ *
+ * Extract the page fragments from the given amount of the source iterator and
+ * build up a second iterator that refers to all of those bits. This allows
+ * the original iterator to disposed of.
+ *
+ * On success, the number of elements in the bvec is returned and the original
+ * iterator will have been advanced by the amount extracted.
+ */
+ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len,
+ struct iov_iter *new)
+{
+ struct bio_vec *bv = NULL;
+ struct page **pages;
+ unsigned int cur_npages;
+ unsigned int max_pages;
+ unsigned int npages = 0;
+ unsigned int i;
+ ssize_t ret;
+ size_t count = orig_len, offset, len;
+ size_t bv_size, pg_size;
+
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!iter_is_ubuf(orig) && !iter_is_iovec(orig)))
+ return -EIO;
+
+ max_pages = iov_iter_npages(orig, INT_MAX);
+ bv_size = array_size(max_pages, sizeof(*bv));
+ bv = kvmalloc(bv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!bv)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ /* Put the page list at the end of the bvec list storage. bvec
+ * elements are larger than page pointers, so as long as we work
+ * 0->last, we should be fine.
+ */
+ pg_size = array_size(max_pages, sizeof(*pages));
+ pages = (void *)bv + bv_size - pg_size;
+
+ while (count && npages < max_pages) {
+ ret = iov_iter_extract_pages(orig, &pages, count,
+ max_pages - npages, &offset);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ pr_err("Couldn't get user pages (rc=%zd)\n", ret);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (ret > count) {
+ pr_err("get_pages rc=%zd more than %zu\n", ret, count);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ count -= ret;
+ ret += offset;
+ cur_npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(ret, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ if (npages + cur_npages > max_pages) {
+ pr_err("Out of bvec array capacity (%u vs %u)\n",
+ npages + cur_npages, max_pages);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < cur_npages; i++) {
+ len = ret > PAGE_SIZE ? PAGE_SIZE : ret;
+ bv[npages + i].bv_page = *pages++;
+ bv[npages + i].bv_offset = offset;
+ bv[npages + i].bv_len = len - offset;
+ ret -= len;
+ offset = 0;
+ }
+
+ npages += cur_npages;
+ }
+
+ iov_iter_bvec(new, iov_iter_rw(orig), bv, npages, orig_len - count);
+ return npages;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netfs_extract_user_iter);
@@ -288,6 +288,8 @@ void netfs_get_subrequest(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq,
void netfs_put_subrequest(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq,
bool was_async, enum netfs_sreq_ref_trace what);
void netfs_stats_show(struct seq_file *);
+ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len,
+ struct iov_iter *new);
/**
* netfs_inode - Get the netfs inode context from the inode