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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>2020-04-09 11:29:47 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-12-08 08:44:27 +0100
commit8c85e455f7c9682d2728e64aaaf36b8c490dfce3 (patch)
tree8c4659ef0703ad2c2de52c4b966c5c40c60aeb99
parent157c8056abb5982ebcc2a06f14a8725dec7cc956 (diff)
ovl: skip overlayfs superblocks at global sync
[ Upstream commit 32b1924b210a70dcacdf65abd687c5ef86a67541 ] Stacked filesystems like overlayfs has no own writeback, but they have to forward syncfs() requests to backend for keeping data integrity. During global sync() each overlayfs instance calls method ->sync_fs() for backend although it itself is in global list of superblocks too. As a result one syscall sync() could write one superblock several times and send multiple disk barriers. This patch adds flag SB_I_SKIP_SYNC into sb->sb_iflags to avoid that. Reported-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Stable-dep-of: b836c4d29f27 ("ima: detect changes to the backing overlay file") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c5
-rw-r--r--fs/sync.c3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h2
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index f5cf0938f298..fcf453f7f4ae 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@ static int ovl_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
return 0;
/*
- * If this is a sync(2) call or an emergency sync, all the super blocks
- * will be iterated, including upper_sb, so no need to do anything.
+ * Not called for sync(2) call or an emergency sync (SB_I_SKIP_SYNC).
+ * All the super blocks will be iterated, including upper_sb.
*
* If this is a syncfs(2) call, then we do need to call
* sync_filesystem() on upper_sb, but enough if we do it when being
@@ -1710,6 +1710,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
sb->s_xattr = ovl_xattr_handlers;
sb->s_fs_info = ofs;
sb->s_flags |= SB_POSIXACL;
+ sb->s_iflags |= SB_I_SKIP_SYNC;
err = -ENOMEM;
root_dentry = d_make_root(ovl_new_inode(sb, S_IFDIR, 0));
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 4d1ff010bc5a..16c2630ee4bf 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ static void sync_inodes_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
static void sync_fs_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
{
- if (!sb_rdonly(sb) && sb->s_op->sync_fs)
+ if (!sb_rdonly(sb) && !(sb->s_iflags & SB_I_SKIP_SYNC) &&
+ sb->s_op->sync_fs)
sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, *(int *)arg);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 4b1553f570f2..fbbd7ef7f653 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1404,6 +1404,8 @@ extern int send_sigurg(struct fown_struct *fown);
#define SB_I_IMA_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 0x00000020
#define SB_I_UNTRUSTED_MOUNTER 0x00000040
+#define SB_I_SKIP_SYNC 0x00000100 /* Skip superblock at global sync */
+
/* Possible states of 'frozen' field */
enum {
SB_UNFROZEN = 0, /* FS is unfrozen */