Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: fix an error handling in erofs_readdir()
From: Chao Yu
Date: Sun Aug 18 2019 - 08:28:35 EST
Hi Xiang,
On 2019-8-18 18:52, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Chao,
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:39:52PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
>> On 2019-8-18 10:53, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:32:45AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 07:20:55PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 09:56:31AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>>>> @@ -82,8 +82,12 @@ static int erofs_readdir(struct file *f, struct dir_context *ctx)
>>>>>> unsigned int nameoff, maxsize;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dentry_page = read_mapping_page(mapping, i, NULL);
>>>>>> - if (IS_ERR(dentry_page))
>>>>>> - continue;
>>>>>> + if (IS_ERR(dentry_page)) {
>>>>>> + errln("fail to readdir of logical block %u of nid %llu",
>>>>>> + i, EROFS_V(dir)->nid);
>>>>>> + err = PTR_ERR(dentry_page);
>>>>>> + break;
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think you want to use the errno that came back from
>>>>> read_mapping_page() (which is, I think, always going to be -EIO).
>>>>> Rather you want -EFSCORRUPTED, at least if I understand the recent
>>>>> patches to ext2/ext4/f2fs/xfs/...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your reply and noticing this. :)
>>>>
>>>> Yes, as I talked with you about read_mapping_page() in a xfs related
>>>> topic earlier, I think I fully understand what returns here.
>>>>
>>>> I actually had some concern about that before sending out this patch.
>>>> You know the status is
>>>> PG_uptodate is not set and PG_error is set here.
>>>>
>>>> But we cannot know it is actually a disk read error or due to
>>>> corrupted images (due to lack of page flags or some status, and
>>>> I think it could be a waste of page structure space for such
>>>> corrupted image or disk error)...
>>>>
>>>> And some people also like propagate errors from insiders...
>>>> (and they could argue about err = -EFSCORRUPTED as well..)
>>>>
>>>> I'd like hear your suggestion about this after my words above?
>>>> still return -EFSCORRUPTED?
>>>
>>> I don't think it matters whether it's due to a disk error or a corrupted
>>> image. We can't read the directory entry, so we should probably return
>>> -EFSCORRUPTED. Thinking about it some more, read_mapping_page() can
>>> also return -ENOMEM, so it should probably look something like this:
>>>
>>> err = 0;
>>> if (dentry_page == ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM))
>>> err = -ENOMEM;
>>> else if (IS_ERR(dentry_page)) {
>>> errln("fail to readdir of logical block %u of nid %llu",
>>> i, EROFS_V(dir)->nid);
>>> err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
>>
>> Well, if there is real IO error happen under filesystem, we should return -EIO
>> instead of EFSCORRUPTED?
>>
>> The right fix may be that doing sanity check on on-disk blkaddr, and return
>> -EFSCORRUPTED if the blkaddr is invalid and propagate the error to its caller
>> erofs_readdir(), IIUC below error info.
>
> In my thought, I actually don't care what is actually returned
> (In other words, I have no tendency about EFSCORRUPTED / EIO)
> as long as it behaves normal for corrupted image.
I doubt that user can and be willing to handle different error code in there
error path.
>
> A little concern is that I have no idea whether all user problems
> can handle EUCLEAN properly.
Yes, I can see it's widely used in fileystem, I guess it would be better to
update manual of common fs interfaces to let user be aware of the meaning of it.
>
> I don't want to limit blkaddr as what ->blocks recorded in
> erofs_super_block since it's already used for our hotpatching
> approach and that field is only used for statfs() for users
> to know its visible size, and block layer will block such
> invalid block access.
>
> All in all, that is minor. I think we can fix as what Matthew said.
Yeah, as we discuss offline, we need keep flexibility on current version for
android, and maybe we can add a feature to check blkaddr validation later.
Thanks,
>
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
>
>>
>>> [36297.354090] attempt to access beyond end of device
>>> [36297.354098] loop17: rw=0, want=29887428984, limit=1953128
>>> [36297.354107] attempt to access beyond end of device
>>> [36297.354109] loop17: rw=0, want=29887428480, limit=1953128
>>> [36301.827234] attempt to access beyond end of device
>>> [36301.827243] loop17: rw=0, want=29887428480, limit=1953128
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> if (err)
>>> break;
>>>