Re: [RFC PATCH 19/35] ovl: readd reflink/copyfile/dedup support

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Since set of arguments are so similar, handle in a common helper.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/overlayfs/file.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/file.c b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
>> index 9670e160967e..39b1b73334ad 100644
>> --- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c
>> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
>> @@ -352,6 +352,81 @@ long ovl_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>>         return ret;
>>  }
>>
>> +enum ovl_copyop {
>> +       OVL_COPY,
>> +       OVL_CLONE,
>> +       OVL_DEDUPE,
>> +};
>> +
>> +static ssize_t ovl_copyfile(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
>> +                           struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out,
>> +                           u64 len, unsigned int flags, enum ovl_copyop op)
>> +{
>> +       struct inode *inode_out = file_inode(file_out);
>> +       struct fd real_in, real_out;
>> +       const struct cred *old_cred;
>> +       int ret;
>> +
>> +       ret = ovl_real_file(file_out, &real_out);
>> +       if (ret)
>> +               return ret;
>> +
>> +       ret = ovl_real_file(file_in, &real_in);
>> +       if (ret) {
>> +               fdput(real_out);
>> +               return ret;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       old_cred = ovl_override_creds(file_inode(file_out)->i_sb);
>> +       switch (op) {
>> +       case OVL_COPY:
>> +               ret = vfs_copy_file_range(real_in.file, pos_in,
>> +                                         real_out.file, pos_out, len, flags);
>
> Problem:
> vfs_copy_file_range(ovl_lower_file, ovl_upper_file) on non samefs
> will get -EXDEV from  ovl_copy_file_range(), so will not fall back
> to do_splice_direct().

This is not a regression, right?

> We may be better off checking in_sb != out_sb and returning
> -EOPNOTSUPP? not sure.

I think we should fix vfs_copy_file_range() to fall back to copying if
not on the same fs.   Not sure why it doesn't do that now.

>
>
>> +               break;
>> +
>> +       case OVL_CLONE:
>> +               ret = vfs_clone_file_range(real_in.file, pos_in,
>> +                                          real_out.file, pos_out, len);
>> +               break;
>> +
>> +       case OVL_DEDUPE:
>> +               ret = vfs_dedupe_file_range_one(real_in.file, pos_in, len,
>> +                                               real_out.file, pos_out);
>
> Problem:
> real_out can be a readonly fd (for is_admin), so we will be deduping
> the lower file.

Ugh...

> I guess this problem is mitigated in current code by may_write_real().
>
> How can we deal with that sort of "write leak" without patching
>  mnt_want_write_file()?

We need to check before calling dedupe on real files that both are on upper.

My problem is what error code to return.  Neither EXDEV nor EINVAL
descibe the error adequately.  It should be "We could dedupe if we
really wanted to, but it makes no sense to do so"...  So now it
returns -EBADE, which means "data was different", but at least that
one should at least be expected by callers.

Thanks,
Miklos