[PATCH v2 0/5] cachefiles: some bugfixes for clean object/send req/poll

[Jeff Layton]

On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun at huaweicloud.com wrote:
> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1 at huawei.com>
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> This is the second version of this patch series. Thank you, Jia Zhu and
> Gao Xiang, for the feedback in the previous version.
> 
> We've been testing ondemand mode for cachefiles since January, and we're
> almost done. We hit a lot of issues during the testing period, and this
> patch set fixes some of the issues related to reopen worker/send req/poll.
> The patches have passed internal testing without regression.
> 
> Patch 1-3: A read request waiting for reopen could be closed maliciously
> before the reopen worker is executing or waiting to be scheduled. So
> ondemand_object_worker() may be called after the info and object and even
> the cache have been freed and trigger use-after-free. So use
> cancel_work_sync() in cachefiles_ondemand_clean_object() to cancel the
> reopen worker or wait for it to finish. Since it makes no sense to wait
> for the daemon to complete the reopen request, to avoid this pointless
> operation blocking cancel_work_sync(), Patch 1 avoids request generation
> by the DROPPING state when the request has not been sent, and Patch 2
> flushes the requests of the current object before cancel_work_sync().
> 
> Patch 4: Cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid msg_id reuse misleading
> the daemon to cause hung.
> 
> Patch 5: Hold xas_lock during polling to avoid dereferencing reqs causing
> use-after-free. This issue was triggered frequently in our tests, and we
> found that anolis 5.10 had fixed it, so to avoid failing the test, this
> patch was pushed upstream as well.
> 
> Comments and questions are, as always, welcome.
> Please let me know what you think.
> 
> Thanks,
> Baokun
> 
> Changes since v1:
>   * Collect RVB from Jia Zhu and Gao Xiang.(Thanks for your review!)
>   * Pathch 1,2：Add more commit messages.
>   * Pathch 3：Add Fixes tag as suggested by Jia Zhu.
>   * Pathch 4：No longer changing "do...while" to "retry" to focus changes
>     and optimise commit messages.
>   * Pathch 5: Drop the internal RVB tag.
> 
> [V1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240424033409.2735257-1-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
> 
> Baokun Li (3):
>   cachefiles: stop sending new request when dropping object
>   cachefiles: flush all requests for the object that is being dropped
>   cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
> 
> Hou Tao (1):
>   cachefiles: flush ondemand_object_worker during clean object
> 
> Jingbo Xu (1):
>   cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling
> 
>  fs/cachefiles/daemon.c   |  4 ++--
>  fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  3 +++
>  fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 

The set itself looks fairly straightforward, but I don't know this code
well enough to give it a proper review.

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>