[PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse

libaokun@huaweicloud.com posted 5 patches 5 months, 2 weeks ago
[PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by libaokun@huaweicloud.com 5 months, 2 weeks ago
From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>

Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request may cause
a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as shown below:

       t1       |      t2       |      t3
-------------------------------------------------
cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
 cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
 cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
 queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
                ondemand_object_worker
                 cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
                  cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
                    // get msg_id 6
                    wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
 // read msg_id 6 req_A
 cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
 copy_to_user
                                // Malicious completion msg_id 6
                                copen 6,-1
                                cachefiles_ondemand_copen
                                 complete(&req_A->done)
                                 // will not set the object to close
                                 // because ondemand_id && fd is valid.

                // ondemand_object_worker() is done
                // but the object is still reopening.

                                // new open req_B
                                cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
                                 cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
                                 // reuse msg_id 6
process_open_req
 copen 6,A.size
 // The expected failed copen was executed successfully

Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, due to
msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is not
closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting for reopen
to complete may trigger hung task.

To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid reusing the
msg_id for a very short duration of time.

Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
---
 fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
 fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
 	unsigned long			req_id_next;
 	struct xarray			ondemand_ids;	/* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
 	u32				ondemand_id_next;
+	u32				msg_id_next;
 };
 
 static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
@@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
 		smp_mb();
 
 		if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
-			!cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
+		    !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
 			WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
 			xas_unlock(&xas);
 			ret = -EIO;
 			goto out;
 		}
 
-		xas.xa_index = 0;
+		/*
+		 * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that would
+		 * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
+		 */
+		xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
 		xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
+		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
+			xas.xa_index = 0;
+			xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
+		}
 		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
 			xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
+
 		xas_store(&xas, req);
-		xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
-		xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
+		if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
+			cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
+			xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
+			xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
+		}
 		xas_unlock(&xas);
 	} while (xas_nomem(&xas, GFP_KERNEL));
 
-- 
2.39.2
Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Jeff Layton 5 months, 2 weeks ago
On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
> 
> Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request may cause
> a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as shown below:
> 
>        t1       |      t2       |      t3
> -------------------------------------------------
> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>  cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
>  cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
>  queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
>                 ondemand_object_worker
>                  cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
>                   cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>                     // get msg_id 6
>                     wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>  // read msg_id 6 req_A
>  cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>  copy_to_user
>                                 // Malicious completion msg_id 6
>                                 copen 6,-1
>                                 cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>                                  complete(&req_A->done)
>                                  // will not set the object to close
>                                  // because ondemand_id && fd is valid.
> 
>                 // ondemand_object_worker() is done
>                 // but the object is still reopening.
> 
>                                 // new open req_B
>                                 cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
>                                  cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>                                  // reuse msg_id 6
> process_open_req
>  copen 6,A.size
>  // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
> 
> Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
> object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, due to
> msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is not
> closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting for reopen
> to complete may trigger hung task.
> 
> To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid reusing the
> msg_id for a very short duration of time.
> 
> Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
> ---
>  fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
>  fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
> --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
>  	unsigned long			req_id_next;
>  	struct xarray			ondemand_ids;	/* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
>  	u32				ondemand_id_next;
> +	u32				msg_id_next;
>  };
>  
>  static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
> --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
>  		smp_mb();
>  
>  		if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
> -			!cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
> +		    !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>  			WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
>  			xas_unlock(&xas);
>  			ret = -EIO;
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  
> -		xas.xa_index = 0;
> +		/*
> +		 * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that would
> +		 * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
> +		 */
> +		xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
>  		xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
> +		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
> +			xas.xa_index = 0;
> +			xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
> +		}
>  		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
>  			xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
> +
>  		xas_store(&xas, req);
> -		xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
> -		xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
> +		if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
> +			cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;

If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
around and you still end up with reuse? Maybe this should be using
ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?



> +			xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
> +			xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
> +		}
>  		xas_unlock(&xas);
>  	} while (xas_nomem(&xas, GFP_KERNEL));
>  

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Baokun Li 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Hi Jeff,

Thank you very much for your review!

On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>
>> Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request may cause
>> a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as shown below:
>>
>>         t1       |      t2       |      t3
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>   cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
>>   cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
>>   queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
>>                  ondemand_object_worker
>>                   cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
>>                    cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>                      // get msg_id 6
>>                      wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>   // read msg_id 6 req_A
>>   cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>   copy_to_user
>>                                  // Malicious completion msg_id 6
>>                                  copen 6,-1
>>                                  cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>                                   complete(&req_A->done)
>>                                   // will not set the object to close
>>                                   // because ondemand_id && fd is valid.
>>
>>                  // ondemand_object_worker() is done
>>                  // but the object is still reopening.
>>
>>                                  // new open req_B
>>                                  cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
>>                                   cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>                                   // reuse msg_id 6
>> process_open_req
>>   copen 6,A.size
>>   // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
>>
>> Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
>> object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, due to
>> msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is not
>> closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting for reopen
>> to complete may trigger hung task.
>>
>> To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid reusing the
>> msg_id for a very short duration of time.
>>
>> Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
>>   fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>>   2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>> index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
>>   	unsigned long			req_id_next;
>>   	struct xarray			ondemand_ids;	/* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
>>   	u32				ondemand_id_next;
>> +	u32				msg_id_next;
>>   };
>>   
>>   static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>> index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>> @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
>>   		smp_mb();
>>   
>>   		if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
>> -			!cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>> +		    !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>   			WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
>>   			xas_unlock(&xas);
>>   			ret = -EIO;
>>   			goto out;
>>   		}
>>   
>> -		xas.xa_index = 0;
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that would
>> +		 * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
>> +		 */
>> +		xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
>>   		xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
>> +		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
>> +			xas.xa_index = 0;
>> +			xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
>> +		}
>>   		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
>>   			xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
>> +
>>   		xas_store(&xas, req);
>> -		xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>> -		xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>> +		if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
>> +			cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
> If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
> around and you still end up with reuse?
Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that when
xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to avoid
the xarry being too deep.

If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck request
after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above problem
may also occur.

But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it means
that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has not
been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.

We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests in
the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
a request is stuck for a long period of time.

If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
> Maybe this should be using
> ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
>
The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open request
req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.

The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated here
so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
could you elaborate a bit more how this works?

>
>> +			xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>> +			xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>> +		}
>>   		xas_unlock(&xas);
>>   	} while (xas_nomem(&xas, GFP_KERNEL));
>>   

Thanks again!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Baokun Li
Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Jeff Layton 5 months, 2 weeks ago
On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 12:06 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Thank you very much for your review!
> 
> On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
> > > From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
> > > 
> > > Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request may cause
> > > a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as shown below:
> > > 
> > >         t1       |      t2       |      t3
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
> > >   cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
> > >   cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
> > >   queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
> > >                  ondemand_object_worker
> > >                   cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
> > >                    cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
> > >                      // get msg_id 6
> > >                      wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
> > > cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
> > >   // read msg_id 6 req_A
> > >   cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
> > >   copy_to_user
> > >                                  // Malicious completion msg_id 6
> > >                                  copen 6,-1
> > >                                  cachefiles_ondemand_copen
> > >                                   complete(&req_A->done)
> > >                                   // will not set the object to close
> > >                                   // because ondemand_id && fd is valid.
> > > 
> > >                  // ondemand_object_worker() is done
> > >                  // but the object is still reopening.
> > > 
> > >                                  // new open req_B
> > >                                  cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
> > >                                   cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
> > >                                   // reuse msg_id 6
> > > process_open_req
> > >   copen 6,A.size
> > >   // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
> > > 
> > > Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
> > > object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, due to
> > > msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is not
> > > closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting for reopen
> > > to complete may trigger hung task.
> > > 
> > > To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid reusing the
> > > msg_id for a very short duration of time.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
> > > Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
> > > ---
> > >   fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
> > >   fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
> > >   2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
> > > --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
> > >   	unsigned long			req_id_next;
> > >   	struct xarray			ondemand_ids;	/* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
> > >   	u32				ondemand_id_next;
> > > +	u32				msg_id_next;
> > >   };
> > >   
> > >   static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
> > > diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
> > > --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
> > >   		smp_mb();
> > >   
> > >   		if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
> > > -			!cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
> > > +		    !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
> > >   			WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
> > >   			xas_unlock(&xas);
> > >   			ret = -EIO;
> > >   			goto out;
> > >   		}
> > >   
> > > -		xas.xa_index = 0;
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that would
> > > +		 * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
> > > +		 */
> > > +		xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
> > >   		xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
> > > +		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
> > > +			xas.xa_index = 0;
> > > +			xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
> > > +		}
> > >   		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
> > >   			xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
> > > +
> > >   		xas_store(&xas, req);
> > > -		xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
> > > -		xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
> > > +		if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
> > > +			cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
> > If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
> > around and you still end up with reuse?
> Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that when
> xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
> goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to avoid
> the xarry being too deep.
> 
> If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck request
> after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above problem
> may also occur.
> 
> But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it means
> that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has not
> been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
> second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.
> 
> We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
> soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests in
> the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
> of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
> a request is stuck for a long period of time.
> 
> If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
> the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
> > Maybe this should be using
> > ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
> > 
> The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open request
> req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
> request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
> copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.
> 
> The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated here
> so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
> could you elaborate a bit more how this works?
> 

ida_alloc and free absolutely prevent reuse while the id is in use.
That's sort of the point of those functions. Basically it uses a set of
bitmaps in an xarray to track which IDs are in use, so ida_alloc only
hands out values which are not in use. See the comments over
ida_alloc_range() in lib/idr.c.


> > 
> > > +			xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
> > > +			xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
> > > +		}
> > >   		xas_unlock(&xas);
> > >   	} while (xas_nomem(&xas, GFP_KERNEL));
> > >   
> 
> Thanks again!
> 

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Baokun Li 5 months, 2 weeks ago
On 2024/5/20 18:04, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 12:06 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your review!
>>
>> On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
>>>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>
>>>> Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request may cause
>>>> a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as shown below:
>>>>
>>>>          t1       |      t2       |      t3
>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
>>>>    queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
>>>>                   ondemand_object_worker
>>>>                    cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
>>>>                     cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>                       // get msg_id 6
>>>>                       wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>>    // read msg_id 6 req_A
>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>>>    copy_to_user
>>>>                                   // Malicious completion msg_id 6
>>>>                                   copen 6,-1
>>>>                                   cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>>>                                    complete(&req_A->done)
>>>>                                    // will not set the object to close
>>>>                                    // because ondemand_id && fd is valid.
>>>>
>>>>                   // ondemand_object_worker() is done
>>>>                   // but the object is still reopening.
>>>>
>>>>                                   // new open req_B
>>>>                                   cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
>>>>                                    cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>                                    // reuse msg_id 6
>>>> process_open_req
>>>>    copen 6,A.size
>>>>    // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
>>>>
>>>> Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
>>>> object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, due to
>>>> msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is not
>>>> closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting for reopen
>>>> to complete may trigger hung task.
>>>>
>>>> To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid reusing the
>>>> msg_id for a very short duration of time.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
>>>>    fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>>>>    2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>> index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
>>>>    	unsigned long			req_id_next;
>>>>    	struct xarray			ondemand_ids;	/* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
>>>>    	u32				ondemand_id_next;
>>>> +	u32				msg_id_next;
>>>>    };
>>>>    
>>>>    static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>> index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>> @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
>>>>    		smp_mb();
>>>>    
>>>>    		if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
>>>> -			!cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>> +		    !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>    			WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
>>>>    			xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>    			ret = -EIO;
>>>>    			goto out;
>>>>    		}
>>>>    
>>>> -		xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>> +		/*
>>>> +		 * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that would
>>>> +		 * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
>>>> +		 */
>>>> +		xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
>>>>    		xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>> +		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
>>>> +			xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>> +			xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>> +		}
>>>>    		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
>>>>    			xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
>>>> +
>>>>    		xas_store(&xas, req);
>>>> -		xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>> -		xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>> +		if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
>>>> +			cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
>>> If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
>>> around and you still end up with reuse?
>> Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that when
>> xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
>> goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to avoid
>> the xarry being too deep.
>>
>> If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck request
>> after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above problem
>> may also occur.
>>
>> But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it means
>> that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has not
>> been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
>> second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.
>>
>> We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
>> soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests in
>> the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
>> of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
>> a request is stuck for a long period of time.
>>
>> If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
>> the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
>>> Maybe this should be using
>>> ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
>>>
>> The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open request
>> req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
>> request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
>> copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.
>>
>> The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated here
>> so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
>> could you elaborate a bit more how this works?
>>
> ida_alloc and free absolutely prevent reuse while the id is in use.
> That's sort of the point of those functions. Basically it uses a set of
> bitmaps in an xarray to track which IDs are in use, so ida_alloc only
> hands out values which are not in use. See the comments over
> ida_alloc_range() in lib/idr.c.
>
Thank you for the explanation!

The logic now provides the same guarantees as ida_alloc/free.
The "reused" id, indeed, is no longer in use in the kernel, but it is still
in use in the userland, so a multi-threaded daemon could be handling
two different requests for the same msg_id at the same time.

Previously, the logic for allocating msg_ids was to start at 0 and look
for a free xas.index, so it was possible for an id to be allocated to a
new request just as the id was being freed.

With the change to cyclic allocation, the kernel will not use the same
id again until INT_MAX requests have been sent, and during the time
it takes to send requests, the daemon has enough time to process
requests whose ids are still in use by the daemon, but have already
been freed in the kernel.

Regards,
Baokun
>>>> +			xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>> +			xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>> +		}
>>>>    		xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>    	} while (xas_nomem(&xas, GFP_KERNEL));
>>>>    
>>>>
Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Jeff Layton 5 months, 2 weeks ago
On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 20:42 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
> On 2024/5/20 18:04, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 12:06 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
> > > Hi Jeff,
> > > 
> > > Thank you very much for your review!
> > > 
> > > On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800,
> > > > libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
> > > > > From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen
> > > > > request may cause
> > > > > a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as
> > > > > shown below:
> > > > > 
> > > > >          t1       |      t2       |      t3
> > > > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > > > cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
> > > > >    cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
> > > > >    cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
> > > > >    queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
> > > > >                   ondemand_object_worker
> > > > >                    cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
> > > > >                     cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
> > > > >                       // get msg_id 6
> > > > >                       wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
> > > > > cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
> > > > >    // read msg_id 6 req_A
> > > > >    cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
> > > > >    copy_to_user
> > > > >                                   // Malicious completion
> > > > > msg_id 6
> > > > >                                   copen 6,-1
> > > > >                                   cachefiles_ondemand_copen
> > > > >                                    complete(&req_A->done)
> > > > >                                    // will not set the object
> > > > > to close
> > > > >                                    // because ondemand_id &&
> > > > > fd is valid.
> > > > > 
> > > > >                   // ondemand_object_worker() is done
> > > > >                   // but the object is still reopening.
> > > > > 
> > > > >                                   // new open req_B
> > > > >                                  
> > > > > cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
> > > > >                                   
> > > > > cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
> > > > >                                    // reuse msg_id 6
> > > > > process_open_req
> > > > >    copen 6,A.size
> > > > >    // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
> > > > > 
> > > > > Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which
> > > > > sets the
> > > > > object to close, and then close triggers reopen again.
> > > > > However, due to
> > > > > msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous
> > > > > fd is not
> > > > > closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests
> > > > > waiting for reopen
> > > > > to complete may trigger hung task.
> > > > > 
> > > > > To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid
> > > > > reusing the
> > > > > msg_id for a very short duration of time.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when
> > > > > looking up cookie")
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >    fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
> > > > >    fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
> > > > >    2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > > > b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > > > index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
> > > > > --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > > > +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > > > @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
> > > > >    	unsigned long			req_id_next;
> > > > >    	struct xarray			ondemand_ids;	/*
> > > > > xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
> > > > >    	u32				ondemand_id_next;
> > > > > +	u32				msg_id_next;
> > > > >    };
> > > > >    
> > > > >    static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct
> > > > > cachefiles_cache *cache)
> > > > > diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > > > b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > > > index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
> > > > > --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > > > +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > > > @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int
> > > > > cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object
> > > > > *object,
> > > > >    		smp_mb();
> > > > >    
> > > > >    		if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
> > > > > -
> > > > > 			!cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
> > > > > +		   
> > > > > !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
> > > > >    			WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand-
> > > > > >ondemand_id == 0);
> > > > >    			xas_unlock(&xas);
> > > > >    			ret = -EIO;
> > > > >    			goto out;
> > > > >    		}
> > > > >    
> > > > > -		xas.xa_index = 0;
> > > > > +		/*
> > > > > +		 * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid
> > > > > msg_id reuse that would
> > > > > +		 * cause the daemon to successfully copen a
> > > > > stale msg_id.
> > > > > +		 */
> > > > > +		xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
> > > > >    		xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX,
> > > > > XA_FREE_MARK);
> > > > > +		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
> > > > > +			xas.xa_index = 0;
> > > > > +			xas_find_marked(&xas, cache-
> > > > > >msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
> > > > > +		}
> > > > >    		if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
> > > > >    			xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
> > > > > +
> > > > >    		xas_store(&xas, req);
> > > > > -		xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
> > > > > -		xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
> > > > > +		if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
> > > > > +			cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index +
> > > > > 1;
> > > > If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter
> > > > wrap
> > > > around and you still end up with reuse?
> > > Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that
> > > when
> > > xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
> > > goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to
> > > avoid
> > > the xarry being too deep.
> > > 
> > > If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck
> > > request
> > > after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above
> > > problem
> > > may also occur.
> > > 
> > > But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it
> > > means
> > > that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has
> > > not
> > > been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
> > > second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.
> > > 
> > > We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
> > > soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests
> > > in
> > > the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
> > > of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
> > > a request is stuck for a long period of time.
> > > 
> > > If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
> > > the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
> > > > Maybe this should be using
> > > > ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
> > > > 
> > > The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open
> > > request
> > > req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
> > > request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
> > > copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.
> > > 
> > > The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated
> > > here
> > > so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
> > > could you elaborate a bit more how this works?
> > > 
> > ida_alloc and free absolutely prevent reuse while the id is in use.
> > That's sort of the point of those functions. Basically it uses a
> > set of
> > bitmaps in an xarray to track which IDs are in use, so ida_alloc
> > only
> > hands out values which are not in use. See the comments over
> > ida_alloc_range() in lib/idr.c.
> > 
> Thank you for the explanation!
> 
> The logic now provides the same guarantees as ida_alloc/free.
> The "reused" id, indeed, is no longer in use in the kernel, but it is
> still
> in use in the userland, so a multi-threaded daemon could be handling
> two different requests for the same msg_id at the same time.
> 
> Previously, the logic for allocating msg_ids was to start at 0 and
> look
> for a free xas.index, so it was possible for an id to be allocated to
> a
> new request just as the id was being freed.
> 
> With the change to cyclic allocation, the kernel will not use the
> same
> id again until INT_MAX requests have been sent, and during the time
> it takes to send requests, the daemon has enough time to process
> requests whose ids are still in use by the daemon, but have already
> been freed in the kernel.
> 
> 

If you're checking for collisions somewhere else, then this should be
fine:

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Gao Xiang 5 months, 2 weeks ago

On 2024/5/20 20:42, Baokun Li wrote:
> On 2024/5/20 18:04, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 12:06 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your review!
>>>
>>> On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
>>>>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request may cause
>>>>> a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as shown below:
>>>>>
>>>>>          t1       |      t2       |      t3
>>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
>>>>>    queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
>>>>>                   ondemand_object_worker
>>>>>                    cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
>>>>>                     cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>                       // get msg_id 6
>>>>>                       wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>>>    // read msg_id 6 req_A
>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>>>>    copy_to_user
>>>>>                                   // Malicious completion msg_id 6
>>>>>                                   copen 6,-1
>>>>>                                   cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>>>>                                    complete(&req_A->done)
>>>>>                                    // will not set the object to close
>>>>>                                    // because ondemand_id && fd is valid.
>>>>>
>>>>>                   // ondemand_object_worker() is done
>>>>>                   // but the object is still reopening.
>>>>>
>>>>>                                   // new open req_B
>>>>>                                   cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
>>>>>                                    cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>                                    // reuse msg_id 6
>>>>> process_open_req
>>>>>    copen 6,A.size
>>>>>    // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
>>>>>
>>>>> Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
>>>>> object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, due to
>>>>> msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is not
>>>>> closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting for reopen
>>>>> to complete may trigger hung task.
>>>>>
>>>>> To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid reusing the
>>>>> msg_id for a very short duration of time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>    2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>> index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
>>>>>        unsigned long            req_id_next;
>>>>>        struct xarray            ondemand_ids;    /* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
>>>>>        u32                ondemand_id_next;
>>>>> +    u32                msg_id_next;
>>>>>    };
>>>>>    static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>> index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>> @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
>>>>>            smp_mb();
>>>>>            if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
>>>>> -            !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>> +            !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>                WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
>>>>>                xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>>                ret = -EIO;
>>>>>                goto out;
>>>>>            }
>>>>> -        xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>> +        /*
>>>>> +         * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that would
>>>>> +         * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
>>>>> +         */
>>>>> +        xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
>>>>>            xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>> +        if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
>>>>> +            xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>> +            xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>> +        }
>>>>>            if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
>>>>>                xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
>>>>> +
>>>>>            xas_store(&xas, req);
>>>>> -        xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>> -        xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>> +        if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
>>>>> +            cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
>>>> If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
>>>> around and you still end up with reuse?
>>> Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that when
>>> xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
>>> goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to avoid
>>> the xarry being too deep.
>>>
>>> If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck request
>>> after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above problem
>>> may also occur.
>>>
>>> But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it means
>>> that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has not
>>> been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
>>> second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.
>>>
>>> We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
>>> soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests in
>>> the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
>>> of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
>>> a request is stuck for a long period of time.
>>>
>>> If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
>>> the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
>>>> Maybe this should be using
>>>> ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
>>>>
>>> The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open request
>>> req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
>>> request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
>>> copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.
>>>
>>> The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated here
>>> so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
>>> could you elaborate a bit more how this works?
>>>
>> ida_alloc and free absolutely prevent reuse while the id is in use.
>> That's sort of the point of those functions. Basically it uses a set of
>> bitmaps in an xarray to track which IDs are in use, so ida_alloc only
>> hands out values which are not in use. See the comments over
>> ida_alloc_range() in lib/idr.c.
>>
> Thank you for the explanation!
> 
> The logic now provides the same guarantees as ida_alloc/free.
> The "reused" id, indeed, is no longer in use in the kernel, but it is still
> in use in the userland, so a multi-threaded daemon could be handling
> two different requests for the same msg_id at the same time.
> 
> Previously, the logic for allocating msg_ids was to start at 0 and look
> for a free xas.index, so it was possible for an id to be allocated to a
> new request just as the id was being freed.
> 
> With the change to cyclic allocation, the kernel will not use the same
> id again until INT_MAX requests have been sent, and during the time
> it takes to send requests, the daemon has enough time to process
> requests whose ids are still in use by the daemon, but have already
> been freed in the kernel.

Again, If I understand correctly, I think the main point
here is

wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)

which could hang due to some malicious deamon.  But I think it
should be switched to wait_for_completion_killable() instead.
It's up to users to kill the mount instance if there is a
malicious user daemon.

So in that case, hung task will not be triggered anymore, and
you don't need to care about cyclic allocation too.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> Regards,
> Baokun
>>>>> +            xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>> +            xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>> +        }
>>>>>            xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>>        } while (xas_nomem(&xas, GFP_KERNEL));
>>>>>
Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Baokun Li 5 months, 2 weeks ago
On 2024/5/20 20:54, Gao Xiang wrote:
>
>
> On 2024/5/20 20:42, Baokun Li wrote:
>> On 2024/5/20 18:04, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 12:06 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for your review!
>>>>
>>>> On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
>>>>>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request 
>>>>>> may cause
>>>>>> a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as 
>>>>>> shown below:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>          t1       |      t2       |      t3
>>>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
>>>>>>    queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
>>>>>>                   ondemand_object_worker
>>>>>>                    cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
>>>>>>                     cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>>                       // get msg_id 6
>>>>>> wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>>>>    // read msg_id 6 req_A
>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>>>>>    copy_to_user
>>>>>>                                   // Malicious completion msg_id 6
>>>>>>                                   copen 6,-1
>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>>>>> complete(&req_A->done)
>>>>>>                                    // will not set the object to 
>>>>>> close
>>>>>>                                    // because ondemand_id && fd 
>>>>>> is valid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                   // ondemand_object_worker() is done
>>>>>>                   // but the object is still reopening.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                   // new open req_B
>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>>                                    // reuse msg_id 6
>>>>>> process_open_req
>>>>>>    copen 6,A.size
>>>>>>    // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
>>>>>> object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, 
>>>>>> due to
>>>>>> msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is 
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting 
>>>>>> for reopen
>>>>>> to complete may trigger hung task.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid 
>>>>>> reusing the
>>>>>> msg_id for a very short duration of time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when 
>>>>>> looking up cookie")
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
>>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>>    2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>> index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
>>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
>>>>>>        unsigned long            req_id_next;
>>>>>>        struct xarray            ondemand_ids;    /* xarray for 
>>>>>> ondemand_id allocation */
>>>>>>        u32                ondemand_id_next;
>>>>>> +    u32                msg_id_next;
>>>>>>    };
>>>>>>    static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct 
>>>>>> cachefiles_cache *cache)
>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>> index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
>>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>> @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int 
>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
>>>>>>            smp_mb();
>>>>>>            if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
>>>>>> - !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>> + !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>> WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
>>>>>>                xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>>>                ret = -EIO;
>>>>>>                goto out;
>>>>>>            }
>>>>>> -        xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>>> +        /*
>>>>>> +         * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that 
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> +         * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
>>>>>> +         */
>>>>>> +        xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
>>>>>>            xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>> +        if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
>>>>>> +            xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>>> +            xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, 
>>>>>> XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>> +        }
>>>>>>            if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
>>>>>>                xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>            xas_store(&xas, req);
>>>>>> -        xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>> -        xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>>> +        if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
>>>>>> +            cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
>>>>> If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
>>>>> around and you still end up with reuse?
>>>> Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that when
>>>> xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
>>>> goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to avoid
>>>> the xarry being too deep.
>>>>
>>>> If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck request
>>>> after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above problem
>>>> may also occur.
>>>>
>>>> But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it 
>>>> means
>>>> that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has not
>>>> been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
>>>> second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.
>>>>
>>>> We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
>>>> soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests in
>>>> the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
>>>> of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
>>>> a request is stuck for a long period of time.
>>>>
>>>> If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
>>>> the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
>>>>> Maybe this should be using
>>>>> ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
>>>>>
>>>> The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open request
>>>> req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
>>>> request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
>>>> copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.
>>>>
>>>> The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated here
>>>> so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
>>>> could you elaborate a bit more how this works?
>>>>
>>> ida_alloc and free absolutely prevent reuse while the id is in use.
>>> That's sort of the point of those functions. Basically it uses a set of
>>> bitmaps in an xarray to track which IDs are in use, so ida_alloc only
>>> hands out values which are not in use. See the comments over
>>> ida_alloc_range() in lib/idr.c.
>>>
>> Thank you for the explanation!
>>
>> The logic now provides the same guarantees as ida_alloc/free.
>> The "reused" id, indeed, is no longer in use in the kernel, but it is 
>> still
>> in use in the userland, so a multi-threaded daemon could be handling
>> two different requests for the same msg_id at the same time.
>>
>> Previously, the logic for allocating msg_ids was to start at 0 and look
>> for a free xas.index, so it was possible for an id to be allocated to a
>> new request just as the id was being freed.
>>
>> With the change to cyclic allocation, the kernel will not use the same
>> id again until INT_MAX requests have been sent, and during the time
>> it takes to send requests, the daemon has enough time to process
>> requests whose ids are still in use by the daemon, but have already
>> been freed in the kernel.
>
> Again, If I understand correctly, I think the main point
> here is
>
> wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>
> which could hang due to some malicious deamon.  But I think it
> should be switched to wait_for_completion_killable() instead. *
> It's up to users to kill the mount instance if there is a
> malicious user daemon.
>
> So in that case, hung task will not be triggered anymore, and
> you don't need to care about cyclic allocation too.
>
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
Hi Xiang,

The problem is not as simple as you think.

If you make it killable, it just won't trigger a hung task in
cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(), and the process waiting for the
resource in question will also be hung.

* When the open/read request in the mount process gets stuck,
   the sync/drop cache will trigger a hung task panic in iterate_supers()
   as it waits for sb->umount to be unlocked.
* After umount, anonymous fd is not closed causing a hung task panic
   in fscache_hash_cookie() because of waiting for cookie unhash.
* The dentry is in a loop up state, because the read request is not being
   processed, another process looking for the same dentry is waiting for
   the previous lookup to finish, which triggers a hung task panic in
   d_alloc_parallel().

Can all this be made killable?

Thanks,
Baokun
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Baokun
>>>>>> + xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>> +            xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>>> +        }
>>>>>>            xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>>>        } while (xas_nomem(&xas, GFP_KERNEL));
>>>>>>

Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Gao Xiang 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Hi Baokun,

On 2024/5/20 21:24, Baokun Li wrote:
> On 2024/5/20 20:54, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2024/5/20 20:42, Baokun Li wrote:
>>> On 2024/5/20 18:04, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 12:06 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
>>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much for your review!
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request may cause
>>>>>>> a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as shown below:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>          t1       |      t2       |      t3
>>>>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
>>>>>>>    queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
>>>>>>>                   ondemand_object_worker
>>>>>>>                    cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
>>>>>>>                     cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>>>                       // get msg_id 6
>>>>>>> wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>>>>>    // read msg_id 6 req_A
>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>>>>>>    copy_to_user
>>>>>>>                                   // Malicious completion msg_id 6
>>>>>>>                                   copen 6,-1
>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>>>>>> complete(&req_A->done)
>>>>>>>                                    // will not set the object to close
>>>>>>>                                    // because ondemand_id && fd is valid.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                   // ondemand_object_worker() is done
>>>>>>>                   // but the object is still reopening.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                                   // new open req_B
>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>>>                                    // reuse msg_id 6
>>>>>>> process_open_req
>>>>>>>    copen 6,A.size
>>>>>>>    // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
>>>>>>> object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, due to
>>>>>>> msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is not
>>>>>>> closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting for reopen
>>>>>>> to complete may trigger hung task.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid reusing the
>>>>>>> msg_id for a very short duration of time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
>>>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>>>    2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>> index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
>>>>>>>        unsigned long            req_id_next;
>>>>>>>        struct xarray            ondemand_ids;    /* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
>>>>>>>        u32                ondemand_id_next;
>>>>>>> +    u32                msg_id_next;
>>>>>>>    };
>>>>>>>    static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>> index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>> @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
>>>>>>>            smp_mb();
>>>>>>>            if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
>>>>>>> - !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>>> + !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>>> WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
>>>>>>>                xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>>>>                ret = -EIO;
>>>>>>>                goto out;
>>>>>>>            }
>>>>>>> -        xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>>>> +        /*
>>>>>>> +         * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that would
>>>>>>> +         * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
>>>>>>> +         */
>>>>>>> +        xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
>>>>>>>            xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>> +        if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
>>>>>>> +            xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>>>> +            xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>> +        }
>>>>>>>            if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
>>>>>>>                xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>            xas_store(&xas, req);
>>>>>>> -        xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>> -        xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>>>> +        if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
>>>>>>> +            cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
>>>>>> If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
>>>>>> around and you still end up with reuse?
>>>>> Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that when
>>>>> xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
>>>>> goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to avoid
>>>>> the xarry being too deep.
>>>>>
>>>>> If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck request
>>>>> after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above problem
>>>>> may also occur.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it means
>>>>> that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has not
>>>>> been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
>>>>> second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
>>>>> soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests in
>>>>> the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
>>>>> of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
>>>>> a request is stuck for a long period of time.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
>>>>> the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
>>>>>> Maybe this should be using
>>>>>> ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
>>>>>>
>>>>> The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open request
>>>>> req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
>>>>> request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
>>>>> copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.
>>>>>
>>>>> The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated here
>>>>> so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
>>>>> could you elaborate a bit more how this works?
>>>>>
>>>> ida_alloc and free absolutely prevent reuse while the id is in use.
>>>> That's sort of the point of those functions. Basically it uses a set of
>>>> bitmaps in an xarray to track which IDs are in use, so ida_alloc only
>>>> hands out values which are not in use. See the comments over
>>>> ida_alloc_range() in lib/idr.c.
>>>>
>>> Thank you for the explanation!
>>>
>>> The logic now provides the same guarantees as ida_alloc/free.
>>> The "reused" id, indeed, is no longer in use in the kernel, but it is still
>>> in use in the userland, so a multi-threaded daemon could be handling
>>> two different requests for the same msg_id at the same time.
>>>
>>> Previously, the logic for allocating msg_ids was to start at 0 and look
>>> for a free xas.index, so it was possible for an id to be allocated to a
>>> new request just as the id was being freed.
>>>
>>> With the change to cyclic allocation, the kernel will not use the same
>>> id again until INT_MAX requests have been sent, and during the time
>>> it takes to send requests, the daemon has enough time to process
>>> requests whose ids are still in use by the daemon, but have already
>>> been freed in the kernel.
>>
>> Again, If I understand correctly, I think the main point
>> here is
>>
>> wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>
>> which could hang due to some malicious deamon.  But I think it
>> should be switched to wait_for_completion_killable() instead. *
>> It's up to users to kill the mount instance if there is a
>> malicious user daemon.
>>
>> So in that case, hung task will not be triggered anymore, and
>> you don't need to care about cyclic allocation too.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gao Xiang
> Hi Xiang,
> 
> The problem is not as simple as you think.
> 
> If you make it killable, it just won't trigger a hung task in
> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(), and the process waiting for the
> resource in question will also be hung.
> 
> * When the open/read request in the mount process gets stuck,
>    the sync/drop cache will trigger a hung task panic in iterate_supers()
>    as it waits for sb->umount to be unlocked.
> * After umount, anonymous fd is not closed causing a hung task panic
>    in fscache_hash_cookie() because of waiting for cookie unhash.
> * The dentry is in a loop up state, because the read request is not being
>    processed, another process looking for the same dentry is waiting for
>    the previous lookup to finish, which triggers a hung task panic in
>    d_alloc_parallel().


As for your sb->umount, d_alloc_parallel() or even i_rwsem,
which are all currently unkillable, also see some previous
threads like:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAJfpegu6v1fRAyLvFLOPUSAhx5aAGvPGjBWv-TDQjugqjUA_hQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

I don't think it's the issue of on-demand cachefiles, even
NVMe or virtio-blk or networking can be stuck in
.lookup, fill_sb or whatever.

Which can makes sb->umount, d_alloc_parallel() or even
i_rwsem unkillable.

> 
> Can all this be made killable?

I can understand your hung_task_panic concern but it
sounds like a workaround to me anyway.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> Thanks,
> Baokun
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Baokun
>>>>>>> + xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>> +            xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>>>> +        }
>>>>>>>            xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>>>>        } while (xas_nomem(&xas, GFP_KERNEL));
>>>>>>>
Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Baokun Li 5 months, 1 week ago
On 2024/5/20 22:56, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Baokun,
>
> On 2024/5/20 21:24, Baokun Li wrote:
>> On 2024/5/20 20:54, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2024/5/20 20:42, Baokun Li wrote:
>>>> On 2024/5/20 18:04, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 12:06 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you very much for your review!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
>>>>>>>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request 
>>>>>>>> may cause
>>>>>>>> a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as 
>>>>>>>> shown below:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>          t1       |      t2       |      t3
>>>>>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
>>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
>>>>>>>>    queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
>>>>>>>>                   ondemand_object_worker
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>>>>                       // get msg_id 6
>>>>>>>> wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>>>>>>    // read msg_id 6 req_A
>>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>>>>>>>    copy_to_user
>>>>>>>>                                   // Malicious completion msg_id 6
>>>>>>>>                                   copen 6,-1
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>>>>>>> complete(&req_A->done)
>>>>>>>>                                    // will not set the object 
>>>>>>>> to close
>>>>>>>>                                    // because ondemand_id && fd 
>>>>>>>> is valid.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                   // ondemand_object_worker() is done
>>>>>>>>                   // but the object is still reopening.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                                   // new open req_B
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>>>>                                    // reuse msg_id 6
>>>>>>>> process_open_req
>>>>>>>>    copen 6,A.size
>>>>>>>>    // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which 
>>>>>>>> sets the
>>>>>>>> object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, 
>>>>>>>> due to
>>>>>>>> msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd 
>>>>>>>> is not
>>>>>>>> closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting 
>>>>>>>> for reopen
>>>>>>>> to complete may trigger hung task.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid 
>>>>>>>> reusing the
>>>>>>>> msg_id for a very short duration of time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when 
>>>>>>>> looking up cookie")
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
>>>>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>>>>    2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>>> index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
>>>>>>>>        unsigned long            req_id_next;
>>>>>>>>        struct xarray            ondemand_ids;    /* xarray for 
>>>>>>>> ondemand_id allocation */
>>>>>>>>        u32                ondemand_id_next;
>>>>>>>> +    u32                msg_id_next;
>>>>>>>>    };
>>>>>>>>    static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct 
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_cache *cache)
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>>> index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>>> @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int 
>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
>>>>>>>>            smp_mb();
>>>>>>>>            if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
>>>>>>>> - !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>>>> + !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>>>> WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
>>>>>>>>                xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>>>>>                ret = -EIO;
>>>>>>>>                goto out;
>>>>>>>>            }
>>>>>>>> -        xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>>>>> +        /*
>>>>>>>> +         * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse 
>>>>>>>> that would
>>>>>>>> +         * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
>>>>>>>> +         */
>>>>>>>> +        xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
>>>>>>>>            xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>>> +        if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
>>>>>>>> +            xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>>>>> +            xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, 
>>>>>>>> XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>>> +        }
>>>>>>>>            if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
>>>>>>>>                xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>            xas_store(&xas, req);
>>>>>>>> -        xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>>> -        xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>>>>> +        if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
>>>>>>>> +            cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
>>>>>>> If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
>>>>>>> around and you still end up with reuse?
>>>>>> Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that when
>>>>>> xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
>>>>>> goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to avoid
>>>>>> the xarry being too deep.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck request
>>>>>> after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above 
>>>>>> problem
>>>>>> may also occur.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it 
>>>>>> means
>>>>>> that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has not
>>>>>> been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
>>>>>> second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
>>>>>> soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests in
>>>>>> the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
>>>>>> of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
>>>>>> a request is stuck for a long period of time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
>>>>>> the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
>>>>>>> Maybe this should be using
>>>>>>> ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open request
>>>>>> req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
>>>>>> request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
>>>>>> copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated here
>>>>>> so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
>>>>>> could you elaborate a bit more how this works?
>>>>>>
>>>>> ida_alloc and free absolutely prevent reuse while the id is in use.
>>>>> That's sort of the point of those functions. Basically it uses a 
>>>>> set of
>>>>> bitmaps in an xarray to track which IDs are in use, so ida_alloc only
>>>>> hands out values which are not in use. See the comments over
>>>>> ida_alloc_range() in lib/idr.c.
>>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the explanation!
>>>>
>>>> The logic now provides the same guarantees as ida_alloc/free.
>>>> The "reused" id, indeed, is no longer in use in the kernel, but it 
>>>> is still
>>>> in use in the userland, so a multi-threaded daemon could be handling
>>>> two different requests for the same msg_id at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> Previously, the logic for allocating msg_ids was to start at 0 and 
>>>> look
>>>> for a free xas.index, so it was possible for an id to be allocated 
>>>> to a
>>>> new request just as the id was being freed.
>>>>
>>>> With the change to cyclic allocation, the kernel will not use the same
>>>> id again until INT_MAX requests have been sent, and during the time
>>>> it takes to send requests, the daemon has enough time to process
>>>> requests whose ids are still in use by the daemon, but have already
>>>> been freed in the kernel.
>>>
>>> Again, If I understand correctly, I think the main point
>>> here is
>>>
>>> wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>>
>>> which could hang due to some malicious deamon.  But I think it
>>> should be switched to wait_for_completion_killable() instead. *
>>> It's up to users to kill the mount instance if there is a
>>> malicious user daemon.
>>>
>>> So in that case, hung task will not be triggered anymore, and
>>> you don't need to care about cyclic allocation too.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gao Xiang
>> Hi Xiang,
>>
>> The problem is not as simple as you think.
>>
>> If you make it killable, it just won't trigger a hung task in
>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(), and the process waiting for the
>> resource in question will also be hung.
>>
>> * When the open/read request in the mount process gets stuck,
>>    the sync/drop cache will trigger a hung task panic in 
>> iterate_supers()
>>    as it waits for sb->umount to be unlocked.
>> * After umount, anonymous fd is not closed causing a hung task panic
>>    in fscache_hash_cookie() because of waiting for cookie unhash.
>> * The dentry is in a loop up state, because the read request is not 
>> being
>>    processed, another process looking for the same dentry is waiting for
>>    the previous lookup to finish, which triggers a hung task panic in
>>    d_alloc_parallel().
>
>
> As for your sb->umount, d_alloc_parallel() or even i_rwsem,
> which are all currently unkillable, also see some previous
> threads like:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAJfpegu6v1fRAyLvFLOPUSAhx5aAGvPGjBWv-TDQjugqjUA_hQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u 
>
>
> I don't think it's the issue of on-demand cachefiles, even
> NVMe or virtio-blk or networking can be stuck in
> .lookup, fill_sb or whatever.
>
> Which can makes sb->umount, d_alloc_parallel() or even
> i_rwsem unkillable.
>
Everyone and every company has different requirements for quality,
and if you don't think these hung_task_panic are problems, I respect
your opinion.

But the company I work for has much higher requirements for quality,
and it's not acceptable to leave these issues that have been tested out
unresolved.
>>
>> Can all this be made killable?
>
> I can understand your hung_task_panic concern but it
> sounds like a workaround to me anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
>
 From the current perspective, cyclic allocation is a valid solution to
the current msg_id collision problem, and it also makes it fairer to
copy out requests than it was before.

Thanks!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Baokun Li

Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Posted by Gao Xiang 5 months, 1 week ago

On 2024/5/21 10:36, Baokun Li wrote:
> On 2024/5/20 22:56, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> Hi Baokun,
>>
>> On 2024/5/20 21:24, Baokun Li wrote:
>>> On 2024/5/20 20:54, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2024/5/20 20:42, Baokun Li wrote:
>>>>> On 2024/5/20 18:04, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 12:06 +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you very much for your review!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2024/5/19 19:11, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 20:51 +0800, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Reusing the msg_id after a maliciously completed reopen request may cause
>>>>>>>>> a read request to remain unprocessed and result in a hung, as shown below:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>          t1       |      t2       |      t3
>>>>>>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_close(A)
>>>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_reopening(A)
>>>>>>>>>    queue_work(fscache_object_wq, &info->work)
>>>>>>>>>                   ondemand_object_worker
>>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(A)
>>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>>>>>                       // get msg_id 6
>>>>>>>>> wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>>>>>>>    // read msg_id 6 req_A
>>>>>>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>>>>>>>>    copy_to_user
>>>>>>>>>                                   // Malicious completion msg_id 6
>>>>>>>>>                                   copen 6,-1
>>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>>>>>>>> complete(&req_A->done)
>>>>>>>>>                                    // will not set the object to close
>>>>>>>>>                                    // because ondemand_id && fd is valid.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>                   // ondemand_object_worker() is done
>>>>>>>>>                   // but the object is still reopening.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>                                   // new open req_B
>>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_init_object(B)
>>>>>>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(OPEN)
>>>>>>>>>                                    // reuse msg_id 6
>>>>>>>>> process_open_req
>>>>>>>>>    copen 6,A.size
>>>>>>>>>    // The expected failed copen was executed successfully
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Expect copen to fail, and when it does, it closes fd, which sets the
>>>>>>>>> object to close, and then close triggers reopen again. However, due to
>>>>>>>>> msg_id reuse resulting in a successful copen, the anonymous fd is not
>>>>>>>>> closed until the daemon exits. Therefore read requests waiting for reopen
>>>>>>>>> to complete may trigger hung task.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> To avoid this issue, allocate the msg_id cyclically to avoid reusing the
>>>>>>>>> msg_id for a very short duration of time.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
>>>>>>>>>    fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>>>>>    2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>>>> index 8ecd296cc1c4..9200c00f3e98 100644
>>>>>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
>>>>>>>>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
>>>>>>>>>        unsigned long            req_id_next;
>>>>>>>>>        struct xarray            ondemand_ids;    /* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
>>>>>>>>>        u32                ondemand_id_next;
>>>>>>>>> +    u32                msg_id_next;
>>>>>>>>>    };
>>>>>>>>>    static inline bool cachefiles_in_ondemand_mode(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>>>> index f6440b3e7368..b10952f77472 100644
>>>>>>>>> --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
>>>>>>>>> @@ -433,20 +433,32 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct cachefiles_object *object,
>>>>>>>>>            smp_mb();
>>>>>>>>>            if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_CLOSE &&
>>>>>>>>> - !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>>>>> + !cachefiles_ondemand_object_is_open(object)) {
>>>>>>>>> WARN_ON_ONCE(object->ondemand->ondemand_id == 0);
>>>>>>>>>                xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>>>>>>>                ret = -EIO;
>>>>>>>>>                goto out;
>>>>>>>>>            }
>>>>>>>>> -        xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>>>>>> +        /*
>>>>>>>>> +         * Cyclically find a free xas to avoid msg_id reuse that would
>>>>>>>>> +         * cause the daemon to successfully copen a stale msg_id.
>>>>>>>>> +         */
>>>>>>>>> +        xas.xa_index = cache->msg_id_next;
>>>>>>>>>            xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>>>> +        if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART) {
>>>>>>>>> +            xas.xa_index = 0;
>>>>>>>>> +            xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->msg_id_next - 1, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>>>> +        }
>>>>>>>>>            if (xas.xa_node == XAS_RESTART)
>>>>>>>>>                xas_set_err(&xas, -EBUSY);
>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>            xas_store(&xas, req);
>>>>>>>>> -        xas_clear_mark(&xas, XA_FREE_MARK);
>>>>>>>>> -        xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>>>>>> +        if (xas_valid(&xas)) {
>>>>>>>>> +            cache->msg_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
>>>>>>>> If you have a long-standing stuck request, could this counter wrap
>>>>>>>> around and you still end up with reuse?
>>>>>>> Yes, msg_id_next is declared to be of type u32 in the hope that when
>>>>>>> xa_index == UINT_MAX, a wrap around occurs so that msg_id_next
>>>>>>> goes to zero. Limiting xa_index to no more than UINT_MAX is to avoid
>>>>>>> the xarry being too deep.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If msg_id_next is equal to the id of a long-standing stuck request
>>>>>>> after the wrap-around, it is true that the reuse in the above problem
>>>>>>> may also occur.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But I feel that a long stuck request is problematic in itself, it means
>>>>>>> that after we have sent 4294967295 requests, the first one has not
>>>>>>> been processed yet, and even if we send a million requests per
>>>>>>> second, this one hasn't been completed for more than an hour.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We have a keep-alive process that pulls the daemon back up as
>>>>>>> soon as it exits, and there is a timeout mechanism for requests in
>>>>>>> the daemon to prevent the kernel from waiting for long periods
>>>>>>> of time. In other words, we should avoid the situation where
>>>>>>> a request is stuck for a long period of time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you think UINT_MAX is not enough, perhaps we could raise
>>>>>>> the maximum value of msg_id_next to ULONG_MAX?
>>>>>>>> Maybe this should be using
>>>>>>>> ida_alloc/free instead, which would prevent that too?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The id reuse here is that the kernel has finished the open request
>>>>>>> req_A and freed its id_A and used it again when sending the open
>>>>>>> request req_B, but the daemon is still working on req_A, so the
>>>>>>> copen id_A succeeds but operates on req_B.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The id that is being used by the kernel will not be allocated here
>>>>>>> so it seems that ida _alloc/free does not prevent reuse either,
>>>>>>> could you elaborate a bit more how this works?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> ida_alloc and free absolutely prevent reuse while the id is in use.
>>>>>> That's sort of the point of those functions. Basically it uses a set of
>>>>>> bitmaps in an xarray to track which IDs are in use, so ida_alloc only
>>>>>> hands out values which are not in use. See the comments over
>>>>>> ida_alloc_range() in lib/idr.c.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for the explanation!
>>>>>
>>>>> The logic now provides the same guarantees as ida_alloc/free.
>>>>> The "reused" id, indeed, is no longer in use in the kernel, but it is still
>>>>> in use in the userland, so a multi-threaded daemon could be handling
>>>>> two different requests for the same msg_id at the same time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Previously, the logic for allocating msg_ids was to start at 0 and look
>>>>> for a free xas.index, so it was possible for an id to be allocated to a
>>>>> new request just as the id was being freed.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the change to cyclic allocation, the kernel will not use the same
>>>>> id again until INT_MAX requests have been sent, and during the time
>>>>> it takes to send requests, the daemon has enough time to process
>>>>> requests whose ids are still in use by the daemon, but have already
>>>>> been freed in the kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Again, If I understand correctly, I think the main point
>>>> here is
>>>>
>>>> wait_for_completion(&req_A->done)
>>>>
>>>> which could hang due to some malicious deamon.  But I think it
>>>> should be switched to wait_for_completion_killable() instead. *
>>>> It's up to users to kill the mount instance if there is a
>>>> malicious user daemon.
>>>>
>>>> So in that case, hung task will not be triggered anymore, and
>>>> you don't need to care about cyclic allocation too.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Gao Xiang
>>> Hi Xiang,
>>>
>>> The problem is not as simple as you think.
>>>
>>> If you make it killable, it just won't trigger a hung task in
>>> cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(), and the process waiting for the
>>> resource in question will also be hung.
>>>
>>> * When the open/read request in the mount process gets stuck,
>>>    the sync/drop cache will trigger a hung task panic in iterate_supers()
>>>    as it waits for sb->umount to be unlocked.
>>> * After umount, anonymous fd is not closed causing a hung task panic
>>>    in fscache_hash_cookie() because of waiting for cookie unhash.
>>> * The dentry is in a loop up state, because the read request is not being
>>>    processed, another process looking for the same dentry is waiting for
>>>    the previous lookup to finish, which triggers a hung task panic in
>>>    d_alloc_parallel().
>>
>>
>> As for your sb->umount, d_alloc_parallel() or even i_rwsem,
>> which are all currently unkillable, also see some previous
>> threads like:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAJfpegu6v1fRAyLvFLOPUSAhx5aAGvPGjBWv-TDQjugqjUA_hQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
>>
>> I don't think it's the issue of on-demand cachefiles, even
>> NVMe or virtio-blk or networking can be stuck in
>> .lookup, fill_sb or whatever.
>>
>> Which can makes sb->umount, d_alloc_parallel() or even
>> i_rwsem unkillable.
>>
> Everyone and every company has different requirements for quality,
> and if you don't think these hung_task_panic are problems, I respect
> your opinion.
> 
> But the company I work for has much higher requirements for quality,
> and it's not acceptable to leave these issues that have been tested out
> unresolved.
>>>
>>> Can all this be made killable?
>>
>> I can understand your hung_task_panic concern but it
>> sounds like a workaround to me anyway.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gao Xiang
>>
>  From the current perspective, cyclic allocation is a valid solution to
> the current msg_id collision problem, and it also makes it fairer to
> copy out requests than it was before.

Okay, for this patch, I agree it's better than none and it can
indeed cause fairer requests, so

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> Thanks!
>