[PATCH] staging: erofs: fix LZ4 limited bounced page mis-reuse

Chao Yu yuchao0 at huawei.com
Wed Jul 3 16:51:44 AEST 2019


Hi xiang,

On 2019/7/3 14:06, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Chao,
> 
> On 2019/7/3 10:09, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2019/7/3 9:50, Chao Yu wrote:
>>> On 2019/7/1 2:58, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>> From: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25 at huawei.com>
>>>>
>>>> Like all lz77-based algrithms, lz4 has a dynamically populated
>>>> ("sliding window") dictionary and the maximum lookback distance
>>>> is 65535. Therefore the number of bounced pages could be limited
>>>> by erofs based on this property.
>>>>
>>>> However, just now we observed some lz4 sequences in the extreme
>>>> case cannot be decompressed correctly after this feature is enabled,
>>>> the root causes after analysis are clear as follows:
>>>> 1) max bounced pages should be 17 rather than 16 pages;
>>>> 2) considering the following case, the broken implementation
>>>>    could reuse unsafely in advance (in other words, reuse it
>>>>    less than a safe distance),
>>>>    0 1 2 ... 16 17 18 ... 33 34
>>>>    b             p  b         b
>>>>    note that the bounce page that we are concerned was allocated
>>>>    at 0, and it reused at 18 since page 17 exists, but it mis-reused
>>>>    at 34 in advance again, which causes decompress failure.
>>>>
>>>> This patch resolves the issue by introducing a bitmap to mark
>>>> whether the page in the same position of last round is a bounced
>>>> page or not, and a micro stack data structure to store all
>>>> available bounced pages.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 7fc45dbc938a ("staging: erofs: introduce generic decompression backend")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25 at huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/staging/erofs/decompressor.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++------------
>>>>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/decompressor.c b/drivers/staging/erofs/decompressor.c
>>>> index 80f1f39719ba..1fb0abb98dff 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/staging/erofs/decompressor.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/erofs/decompressor.c
>>>> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>>>>  #define LZ4_DISTANCE_MAX 65535	/* set to maximum value by default */
>>>>  #endif
>>>>  
>>>> -#define LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES	DIV_ROUND_UP(LZ4_DISTANCE_MAX, PAGE_SIZE)
>>>> +#define LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES	(DIV_ROUND_UP(LZ4_DISTANCE_MAX, PAGE_SIZE) + 1)
>>>>  #ifndef LZ4_DECOMPRESS_INPLACE_MARGIN
>>>>  #define LZ4_DECOMPRESS_INPLACE_MARGIN(srcsize)  (((srcsize) >> 8) + 32)
>>>>  #endif
>>>> @@ -35,19 +35,28 @@ static int lz4_prepare_destpages(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>>  	const unsigned int nr =
>>>>  		PAGE_ALIGN(rq->pageofs_out + rq->outputsize) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>>>  	struct page *availables[LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES] = { NULL };
>>>> -	unsigned long unused[DIV_ROUND_UP(LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES,
>>>> -					  BITS_PER_LONG)] = { 0 };
>>>> +	unsigned long bounced[DIV_ROUND_UP(LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES,
>>>> +					   BITS_PER_LONG)] = { 0 };
>>>>  	void *kaddr = NULL;
>>>> -	unsigned int i, j, k;
>>>> +	unsigned int i, j, top;
>>>>  
>>>> -	for (i = 0; i < nr; ++i) {
>>>> +	top = 0;
>>>> +	for (i = j = 0; i < nr; ++i, ++j) {
>>>>  		struct page *const page = rq->out[i];
>>>> +		struct page *victim;
>>>>  
>>>> -		j = i & (LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES - 1);
>>>> -		if (availables[j])
>>>> -			__set_bit(j, unused);
>>>> +		if (j >= LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES)
>>>> +			j = 0;
>>>> +
>>>> +		/* 'valid' bounced can only be tested after a complete round */
>>>> +		if (test_bit(j, bounced)) {
>>>> +			DBG_BUGON(i < LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES);
>>>> +			DBG_BUGON(top >= LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES);
>>>> +			availables[top++] = rq->out[i - LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES];
>>>
>>> Maybe we can change 'i - LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES' to 'j' directly for better
>>> readability.
>>
>> OK, I think they are equivalent as well, will change for readability, retest and resend.
>> Thanks for your suggestion :)
> 
> I tested again and I observed that using j broke the logic and I think we cannot use j
> to replace i - LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES.
> 
> Since bounced pages was marked according to the last round rather than the first round,
> we cannot directly use the first round pages to push into the stack, e.g.

Yes, I can understand that, so the bitmap only indicate page in previous round
is a new bounced page or a referenced bounced page, using page at last round is
safe.

Anyway, thanks for the explanation below, and go ahead with current
implementation. :)

Thanks,

> 
> 1)
>     0 1 2 ... 16 17 18 ... 33 34
>     p             b            b
> 
> bounce page could be allocated from rq->out[17], and we could reuse it from rq->out[34], which
> is not equal to rq->out[0].
> 
> 2)
>     0 1 2 ... 16 17 18  19  ... 33 34 35 36
>       b              p   b                b
> allocated in rq->out[1] j = 1, reuse it in rq->out[19] j = 2, reuse it again in rq->out[36] j = 2,
> which is not equal to rq->out[2].
> 
> I think the original patch is ok, and it cannot be replaced to rq->out[j].
> 
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gao Xiang
>>
>>>
>>> Otherwise, it looks good to me.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0 at huawei.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>> +		}
>>>>  
>>>>  		if (page) {
>>>> +			__clear_bit(j, bounced);
>>>>  			if (kaddr) {
>>>>  				if (kaddr + PAGE_SIZE == page_address(page))
>>>>  					kaddr += PAGE_SIZE;
>>>> @@ -59,27 +68,24 @@ static int lz4_prepare_destpages(struct z_erofs_decompress_req *rq,
>>>>  			continue;
>>>>  		}
>>>>  		kaddr = NULL;
>>>> +		__set_bit(j, bounced);
>>>>  
>>>> -		k = find_first_bit(unused, LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES);
>>>> -		if (k < LZ4_MAX_DISTANCE_PAGES) {
>>>> -			j = k;
>>>> -			get_page(availables[j]);
>>>> +		if (top) {
>>>> +			victim = availables[--top];
>>>> +			get_page(victim);
>>>>  		} else {
>>>> -			DBG_BUGON(availables[j]);
>>>> -
>>>>  			if (!list_empty(pagepool)) {
>>>> -				availables[j] = lru_to_page(pagepool);
>>>> -				list_del(&availables[j]->lru);
>>>> -				DBG_BUGON(page_ref_count(availables[j]) != 1);
>>>> +				victim = lru_to_page(pagepool);
>>>> +				list_del(&victim->lru);
>>>> +				DBG_BUGON(page_ref_count(victim) != 1);
>>>>  			} else {
>>>> -				availables[j] = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
>>>> -				if (!availables[j])
>>>> +				victim = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
>>>> +				if (!victim)
>>>>  					return -ENOMEM;
>>>>  			}
>>>> -			availables[j]->mapping = Z_EROFS_MAPPING_STAGING;
>>>> +			victim->mapping = Z_EROFS_MAPPING_STAGING;
>>>>  		}
>>>> -		rq->out[i] = availables[j];
>>>> -		__clear_bit(j, unused);
>>>> +		rq->out[i] = victim;
>>>>  	}
>>>>  	return kaddr ? 1 : 0;
>>>>  }
>>>>
> .
> 


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