Re: [PATCH 2/2] dm verity: don't verity if readahead failed

[Eric Biggers]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 01:55:29AM -0700, Wu Bo wrote:
> We found an issue under Android OTA scenario that many BIOs have to do
> FEC where the data under dm-verity is 100% complete and no corruption.
> 
> Android OTA has many dm-block layers, from upper to lower:
> dm-verity
> dm-snapshot
> dm-origin & dm-cow
> dm-linear
> ufs
> 
> Dm tables have to change 2 times during Android OTA merging process.
> When doing table change, the dm-snapshot will be suspended for a while.
> During this interval, we found there are many readahead IOs are
> submitted to dm_verity from filesystem. Then the kverity works are busy
> doing FEC process which cost too much time to finish dm-verity IO. And
> cause system stuck.
> 
> We add some debug log and find that each readahead IO need around 10s to
> finish when this situation occurred. Because here has a IO
> amplification:
> 
> dm-snapshot suspend
> erofs_readahead     // 300+ io is submitted
> 	dm_submit_bio (dm_verity)
> 		dm_submit_bio (dm_snapshot)
> 		bio return EIO
> 		bio got nothing, it's empty
> 	verity_end_io
> 	verity_verify_io
> 	forloop range(0, io->n_blocks)    // each io->nblocks ~= 20
> 		verity_fec_decode
> 		fec_decode_rsb
> 		fec_read_bufs
> 		forloop range(0, v->fec->rsn) // v->fec->rsn = 253
> 			new_read
> 			submit_bio (dm_snapshot)
> 		end loop
> 	end loop
> dm-snapshot resume
> 
> Readahead BIO got nothing during dm-snapshot suspended. So all of them
> will do FEC.
> Each readahead BIO need to do io->n_blocks ~= 20 times verify.
> Each block need to do fec, and every block need to do v->fec->rsn = 253
> times read.
> So during the suspend interval(~200ms), 300 readahead BIO make
> 300*20*253 IOs on dm-snapshot.
> 
> As readahead IO is not required by user space, and to fix this issue,
> I think it would be better to pass it to upper layer to handle it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wu Bo <bo.wu@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> index 42b2483eb08c..d242e50ec869 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> @@ -668,7 +668,9 @@ static void verity_end_io(struct bio *bio)
>  
>  	verity_fec_init_io(io);
>  	if (bio->bi_status &&
> -	    (!verity_fec_is_enabled(io->v) || verity_is_system_shutting_down())) {
> +	    (!verity_fec_is_enabled(io->v) ||
> +	     verity_is_system_shutting_down() ||
> +	     (bio->bi_opf & REQ_RAHEAD))) {
>  		verity_finish_io(io, bio->bi_status);
>  		return;
>  	}

Thanks, this seems reasonable to me.  As with your previous patch: what commit
introduced this issue?  To me this looks like a longstanding issue, maybe dating
back to the original addition of FEC support to dm-verity by commit a739ff3f543a
("dm verity: add support for forward error correction"); do you agree?  Can you
please add Fixes and "Cc stable" tags to your patch?  Thanks!

- Eric