Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] nfsd: ensure we use ctime_peek to grab the inode->i_ctime

[Chuck Lever III]

> On May 18, 2023, at 7:47 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> If getattr fails, then nfsd can end up scraping the time values directly
> out of the inode for pre and post-op attrs. This may or may not be the
> right thing to do, but for now make it at least use ctime_peek in this
> situation to ensure that the QUERIED flag is masked.

That code comes from:

commit 39ca1bf624b6b82cc895b0217889eaaf572a7913
Author:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 3 17:14:35 2018 +0200
Commit:     J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu Feb 8 13:40:17 2018 -0500

    nfsd: store stat times in fill_pre_wcc() instead of inode times

    The time values in stat and inode may differ for overlayfs and stat time
    values are the correct ones to use. This is also consistent with the fact
    that fill_post_wcc() also stores stat time values.

    This means introducing a stat call that could fail, where previously we
    were just copying values out of the inode.  To be conservative about
    changing behavior, we fall back to copying values out of the inode in
    the error case.  It might be better just to clear fh_pre_saved (though
    note the BUG_ON in set_change_info).

    Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>

I was thinking it might have been added to handle odd corner
cases around re-exporting NFS mounts, but that does not seem
to be the case.

The fh_getattr() can fail for legitimate reasons -- like the
file is in the middle of being deleted or renamed over -- I
would think. This code should really deal with that by not
adding pre-op attrs, since they are optional.


> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c | 11 ++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c
> index ccd8485fee04..f053cf20dd8a 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c
> @@ -624,9 +624,14 @@ void fh_fill_pre_attrs(struct svc_fh *fhp)
> inode = d_inode(fhp->fh_dentry);
> err = fh_getattr(fhp, &stat);
> if (err) {
> - /* Grab the times from inode anyway */
> + /*
> + * Grab the times from inode anyway.
> + *
> + * FIXME: is this the right thing to do? Or should we just
> + *  not send pre and post-op attrs in this case?
> + */
> stat.mtime = inode->i_mtime;
> - stat.ctime = inode->i_ctime;
> + stat.ctime = ctime_peek(inode);
> stat.size  = inode->i_size;
> if (v4 && IS_I_VERSION(inode)) {
> stat.change_cookie = inode_query_iversion(inode);
> @@ -662,7 +667,7 @@ void fh_fill_post_attrs(struct svc_fh *fhp)
> err = fh_getattr(fhp, &fhp->fh_post_attr);
> if (err) {
> fhp->fh_post_saved = false;
> - fhp->fh_post_attr.ctime = inode->i_ctime;
> + fhp->fh_post_attr.ctime = ctime_peek(inode);
> if (v4 && IS_I_VERSION(inode)) {
> fhp->fh_post_attr.change_cookie = inode_query_iversion(inode);
> fhp->fh_post_attr.result_mask |= STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE;
> -- 
> 2.40.1
> 

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Chuck Lever