Re: [PATCH] ceph: don't allow copy_file_range when stripe_count != 1

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Thu Oct 31 2019 - 12:59:35 EST


On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 15:44 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:28:55AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 11:49 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > > copy_file_range tries to use the OSD 'copy-from' operation, which simply
> > > performs a full object copy. Unfortunately, the implementation of this
> > > system call assumes that stripe_count is always set to 1 and doesn't take
> > > into account that the data may be striped across an object set. If the
> > > file layout has stripe_count different from 1, then the destination file
> > > data will be corrupted.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > >
> > > Consider a 8 MiB file with 4 MiB object size, stripe_count of 2 and
> > > stripe_size of 2 MiB; the first half of the file will be filled with 'A's
> > > and the second half will be filled with 'B's:
> > >
> > > 0 4M 8M Obj1 Obj2
> > > +------+------+ +----+ +----+
> > > file: | AAAA | BBBB | | AA | | AA |
> > > +------+------+ |----| |----|
> > > | BB | | BB |
> > > +----+ +----+
> > >
> > > If we copy_file_range this file into a new file (which needs to have the
> > > same file layout!), then it will start by copying the object starting at
> > > file offset 0 (Obj1). And then it will copy the object starting at file
> > > offset 4M -- which is Obj1 again.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the solution for this is to not allow remote object copies
> > > to be performed when the file layout stripe_count is not 1 and simply
> > > fallback to the default (VFS) copy_file_range implementation.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Hi Jeff,
> > >
> > > I hope my understanding of the whole file striping in CephFS is correct;
> > > I had to go re-read the whole thing to refresh my memory.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I guess that this is not really the only solution to this
> > > problem, but it's definitely the simplest one. copy_file_range is
> > > already way more complex that I had ever anticipated. I would rather
> > > keep this simple solution instead of adding more complexity and cover
> > > more corner cases. But yeah, we may want to revisit this in the
> > > future...
> > >
> > > [OOT: files layout is probably one of the biggest headaches to sort out
> > > the day we want to implement something like FIEMAP on CephFS ;-) ]
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > --
> > > Luis
> > >
> > > fs/ceph/file.c | 7 +++++--
> > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/ceph/file.c b/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > index d277f71abe0b..3b0e6f9eb6a6 100644
> > > --- a/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > +++ b/fs/ceph/file.c
> > > @@ -1957,9 +1957,12 @@ static ssize_t __ceph_copy_file_range(struct file *src_file, loff_t src_off,
> > > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > >
> > > if ((src_ci->i_layout.stripe_unit != dst_ci->i_layout.stripe_unit) ||
> > > - (src_ci->i_layout.stripe_count != dst_ci->i_layout.stripe_count) ||
> > > - (src_ci->i_layout.object_size != dst_ci->i_layout.object_size))
> > > + (src_ci->i_layout.stripe_count != 1) ||
> > > + (dst_ci->i_layout.stripe_count != 1) ||
> > > + (src_ci->i_layout.object_size != dst_ci->i_layout.object_size)) {
> > > + dout("Invalid src/dst files layout\n");
> > > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > > + }
> > >
> > > if (len < src_ci->i_layout.object_size)
> > > return -EOPNOTSUPP; /* no remote copy will be done */
> >
> > I'm fine with restricting CFR to very simple cases, at least initially.
> > We can always expand it later once the need becomes clear.
> >
> > That said, we should probably add a comment explaining why we're
> > excluding cases where the stripe count != 1 here. It doesn't need to
> > contain the whole commit log message you wrote, but anyone that does
> > want to improve this later might appreciate some breadcrumbs.
> >
> > Maybe something like:
> >
> > /*
> > * Striped file layouts require that we copy partial objects,
> > * but the OSD copy-from operation only supports full-object copies.
> > * Limit this to non-striped file layouts for now.
> > */
> >
> > If that sounds ok, I'll add that in and merge this later today.
>
> Thanks, that looks good to me, feel free to add that comment.
>

Merged, and I also marked this for stable, since it's a potential data corruption bug.

Thanks,
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>