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authorChris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>2020-08-06 23:20:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-07 11:33:24 -0700
commite809d5f0b5c912fe981dce738f3283b2010665f0 (patch)
treece93722645c5ded84c8ed7cd28421cb57d1054f1 /include/linux/shmem_fs.h
parent0f190a7ab78878f9e6c6930fc0f5f92c1250b57d (diff)
tmpfs: per-superblock i_ino support
Patch series "tmpfs: inode: Reduce risk of inum overflow", v7. In Facebook production we are seeing heavy i_ino wraparounds on tmpfs. On affected tiers, in excess of 10% of hosts show multiple files with different content and the same inode number, with some servers even having as many as 150 duplicated inode numbers with differing file content. This causes actual, tangible problems in production. For example, we have complaints from those working on remote caches that their application is reporting cache corruptions because it uses (device, inodenum) to establish the identity of a particular cache object, but because it's not unique any more, the application refuses to continue and reports cache corruption. Even worse, sometimes applications may not even detect the corruption but may continue anyway, causing phantom and hard to debug behaviour. In general, userspace applications expect that (device, inodenum) should be enough to be uniquely point to one inode, which seems fair enough. One might also need to check the generation, but in this case: 1. That's not currently exposed to userspace (ioctl(...FS_IOC_GETVERSION...) returns ENOTTY on tmpfs); 2. Even with generation, there shouldn't be two live inodes with the same inode number on one device. In order to mitigate this, we take a two-pronged approach: 1. Moving inum generation from being global to per-sb for tmpfs. This itself allows some reduction in i_ino churn. This works on both 64- and 32- bit machines. 2. Adding inode{64,32} for tmpfs. This fix is supported on machines with 64-bit ino_t only: we allow users to mount tmpfs with a new inode64 option that uses the full width of ino_t, or CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64. You can see how this compares to previous related patches which didn't implement this per-superblock: - https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11254001/ - https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11023915/ This patch (of 2): get_next_ino has a number of problems: - It uses and returns a uint, which is susceptible to become overflowed if a lot of volatile inodes that use get_next_ino are created. - It's global, with no specificity per-sb or even per-filesystem. This means it's not that difficult to cause inode number wraparounds on a single device, which can result in having multiple distinct inodes with the same inode number. This patch adds a per-superblock counter that mitigates the second case. This design also allows us to later have a specific i_ino size per-device, for example, allowing users to choose whether to use 32- or 64-bit inodes for each tmpfs mount. This is implemented in the next commit. For internal shmem mounts which may be less tolerant to spinlock delays, we implement a percpu batching scheme which only takes the stat_lock at each batch boundary. Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1594661218.git.chris@chrisdown.name Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1986b9d63b986f08ec07a4aa4b2275e718e47d8a.1594661218.git.chris@chrisdown.name Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
index 7a35a6901221..eb628696ec66 100644
--- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ struct shmem_sb_info {
unsigned char huge; /* Whether to try for hugepages */
kuid_t uid; /* Mount uid for root directory */
kgid_t gid; /* Mount gid for root directory */
+ ino_t next_ino; /* The next per-sb inode number to use */
+ ino_t __percpu *ino_batch; /* The next per-cpu inode number to use */
struct mempolicy *mpol; /* default memory policy for mappings */
spinlock_t shrinklist_lock; /* Protects shrinklist */
struct list_head shrinklist; /* List of shinkable inodes */