Re: [PATCH V9 3/4] fuse: Introduce synchronous read and write for passthrough

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:13 PM Alessio Balsini <balsini@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> All the read and write operations performed on fuse_files which have the
> passthrough feature enabled are forwarded to the associated lower file
> system file via VFS.
>
> Sending the request directly to the lower file system avoids the userspace
> round-trip that, because of possible context switches and additional
> operations might reduce the overall performance, especially in those cases
> where caching doesn't help, for example in reads at random offsets.
>
> Verifying if a fuse_file has a lower file system file associated for
> passthrough can be done by checking the validity of its passthrough_filp
> pointer. This pointer is not NULL only if passthrough has been successfully
> enabled via the appropriate ioctl().
> When a read/write operation is requested for a FUSE file with passthrough
> enabled, a new equivalent VFS request is generated, which instead targets
> the lower file system file.
> The VFS layer performs additional checks that allows for safer operations,
> but may cause the operation to fail if the process accessing the FUSE file
> system does not have access to the lower file system. This often happens in
> passthrough file systems, where the FUSE daemon is responsible for the
> enforcement of the lower file system access policies. In order to preserve
> this behavior, the current process accessing the FUSE file with passthrough
> enabled receives the privileges of the FUSE daemon while performing the
> read/write operation, emulating a behavior used in overlayfs. These
> privileges will be reverted as soon as the IO operation completes. This
> feature does not provide any higher security privileges to those processes
> accessing the FUSE file system with passthrough enabled. This because it is
> still the FUSE daemon responsible for enabling or not the passthrough
> feature at file open time, and should enable the feature only after
> appropriate access policy checks.
>
> This change only implements synchronous requests in passthrough, returning
> an error in the case of ansynchronous operations, yet covering the majority
> of the use cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alessio Balsini <balsini@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/fuse/file.c        |  8 +++-
>  fs/fuse/fuse_i.h      |  2 +
>  fs/fuse/passthrough.c | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
> index 6c0ec742ce74..c3289ff0cd33 100644
> --- a/fs/fuse/file.c
> +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
> @@ -1552,7 +1552,9 @@ static ssize_t fuse_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
>         if (is_bad_inode(file_inode(file)))
>                 return -EIO;
>
> -       if (!(ff->open_flags & FOPEN_DIRECT_IO))
> +       if (ff->passthrough_filp)
> +               return fuse_passthrough_read_iter(iocb, to);
> +       else if (!(ff->open_flags & FOPEN_DIRECT_IO))
>                 return fuse_cache_read_iter(iocb, to);
>         else
>                 return fuse_direct_read_iter(iocb, to);
> @@ -1566,7 +1568,9 @@ static ssize_t fuse_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
>         if (is_bad_inode(file_inode(file)))
>                 return -EIO;
>
> -       if (!(ff->open_flags & FOPEN_DIRECT_IO))
> +       if (ff->passthrough_filp)
> +               return fuse_passthrough_write_iter(iocb, from);
> +       else if (!(ff->open_flags & FOPEN_DIRECT_IO))
>                 return fuse_cache_write_iter(iocb, from);
>         else
>                 return fuse_direct_write_iter(iocb, from);
> diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> index 67bf5919f8d6..b0764ca4c4fd 100644
> --- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> +++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> @@ -1109,5 +1109,7 @@ void fuse_free_conn(struct fuse_conn *fc);
>
>  int fuse_passthrough_setup(struct fuse_req *req, unsigned int fd);
>  void fuse_passthrough_release(struct fuse_file *ff);
> +ssize_t fuse_passthrough_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to);
> +ssize_t fuse_passthrough_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from);
>
>  #endif /* _FS_FUSE_I_H */
> diff --git a/fs/fuse/passthrough.c b/fs/fuse/passthrough.c
> index 86ab4eafa7bf..f70c0ef6945b 100644
> --- a/fs/fuse/passthrough.c
> +++ b/fs/fuse/passthrough.c
> @@ -2,6 +2,99 @@
>
>  #include "fuse_i.h"
>
> +#include <linux/uio.h>
> +
> +static void fuse_copyattr(struct file *dst_file, struct file *src_file)
> +{
> +       struct inode *dst = file_inode(dst_file);
> +       struct inode *src = file_inode(src_file);
> +
> +       i_size_write(dst, i_size_read(src));
> +}
> +
> +static rwf_t iocbflags_to_rwf(int ifl)
> +{
> +       rwf_t flags = 0;
> +
> +       if (ifl & IOCB_APPEND)
> +               flags |= RWF_APPEND;
> +       if (ifl & IOCB_DSYNC)
> +               flags |= RWF_DSYNC;
> +       if (ifl & IOCB_HIPRI)
> +               flags |= RWF_HIPRI;
> +       if (ifl & IOCB_NOWAIT)
> +               flags |= RWF_NOWAIT;
> +       if (ifl & IOCB_SYNC)
> +               flags |= RWF_SYNC;
> +
> +       return flags;
> +}
> +
> +static const struct cred *
> +fuse_passthrough_override_creds(const struct file *fuse_filp)
> +{
> +       struct inode *fuse_inode = file_inode(fuse_filp);
> +       struct fuse_conn *fc = fuse_inode->i_sb->s_fs_info;
> +
> +       return override_creds(fc->creator_cred);
> +}
> +
> +ssize_t fuse_passthrough_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb_fuse,
> +                                  struct iov_iter *iter)
> +{
> +       ssize_t ret;
> +       const struct cred *old_cred;
> +       struct file *fuse_filp = iocb_fuse->ki_filp;
> +       struct fuse_file *ff = fuse_filp->private_data;
> +       struct file *passthrough_filp = ff->passthrough_filp;
> +
> +       if (!iov_iter_count(iter))
> +               return 0;
> +
> +       old_cred = fuse_passthrough_override_creds(fuse_filp);
> +       if (is_sync_kiocb(iocb_fuse)) {
> +               ret = vfs_iter_read(passthrough_filp, iter, &iocb_fuse->ki_pos,
> +                                   iocbflags_to_rwf(iocb_fuse->ki_flags));
> +       } else {
> +               ret = -EIO;
> +       }

Just do vfs_iter_read() unconditionally, instead of returning EIO.
It will work fine, except it won't be async.

Yeah, I know next patch is going to fix this, but still, lets not make
this patch return silly errors.

> +       revert_creds(old_cred);
> +
> +       return ret;
> +}
> +
> +ssize_t fuse_passthrough_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb_fuse,
> +                                   struct iov_iter *iter)
> +{
> +       ssize_t ret;
> +       const struct cred *old_cred;
> +       struct file *fuse_filp = iocb_fuse->ki_filp;
> +       struct fuse_file *ff = fuse_filp->private_data;
> +       struct inode *fuse_inode = file_inode(fuse_filp);
> +       struct file *passthrough_filp = ff->passthrough_filp;
> +
> +       if (!iov_iter_count(iter))
> +               return 0;
> +
> +       inode_lock(fuse_inode);
> +
> +       old_cred = fuse_passthrough_override_creds(fuse_filp);
> +       if (is_sync_kiocb(iocb_fuse)) {
> +               file_start_write(passthrough_filp);
> +               ret = vfs_iter_write(passthrough_filp, iter, &iocb_fuse->ki_pos,
> +                                   iocbflags_to_rwf(iocb_fuse->ki_flags));
> +               file_end_write(passthrough_filp);
> +               if (ret > 0)
> +                       fuse_copyattr(fuse_filp, passthrough_filp);
> +       } else {
> +               ret = -EIO;
> +       }

And the same here.

> +       revert_creds(old_cred);
> +       inode_unlock(fuse_inode);
> +
> +       return ret;
> +}
> +
>  int fuse_passthrough_setup(struct fuse_req *req, unsigned int fd)
>  {
>         int ret;
> --
> 2.28.0.681.g6f77f65b4e-goog
>