[PATCH] fuse: make delete_stale configurable

From: Jingbo Xu
Date: Mon Oct 23 2023 - 07:53:56 EST


From: Yifei Zhang <zyfjeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Fuse tends to cache dentries in LRU list for performance, which makes
the fuse server always keep a reference to the opened fd. If the file
is deleted by a third party process (neither fuse server nor fuse
client), the fuse server will always keep a reference to the deleted
file, in which case the deleted file cannot be released.

Fix this by making the delete_stale feature configurable. Fuse servers
can enable this if a file may be unlinked not through fuse server nor
client. Actually virtiofs enables this by default. Make this
configurable for other fuse filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Yifei Zhang <zyfjeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/inode.c | 5 ++++-
include/uapi/linux/fuse.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index 2e4eb7cf26fb..635bf0b11147 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -1234,6 +1234,8 @@ static void process_init_reply(struct fuse_mount *fm, struct fuse_args *args,
fc->create_supp_group = 1;
if (flags & FUSE_DIRECT_IO_RELAX)
fc->direct_io_relax = 1;
+ if (flags & FUSE_DELETE_STALE)
+ fc->delete_stale = 1;
} else {
ra_pages = fc->max_read / PAGE_SIZE;
fc->no_lock = 1;
@@ -1280,7 +1282,8 @@ void fuse_send_init(struct fuse_mount *fm)
FUSE_NO_OPENDIR_SUPPORT | FUSE_EXPLICIT_INVAL_DATA |
FUSE_HANDLE_KILLPRIV_V2 | FUSE_SETXATTR_EXT | FUSE_INIT_EXT |
FUSE_SECURITY_CTX | FUSE_CREATE_SUPP_GROUP |
- FUSE_HAS_EXPIRE_ONLY | FUSE_DIRECT_IO_RELAX;
+ FUSE_HAS_EXPIRE_ONLY | FUSE_DIRECT_IO_RELAX |
+ FUSE_DELETE_STALE;
#ifdef CONFIG_FUSE_DAX
if (fm->fc->dax)
flags |= FUSE_MAP_ALIGNMENT;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
index db92a7202b34..8d0926d21d2e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ struct fuse_file_lock {
* FUSE_HAS_EXPIRE_ONLY: kernel supports expiry-only entry invalidation
* FUSE_DIRECT_IO_RELAX: relax restrictions in FOPEN_DIRECT_IO mode, for now
* allow shared mmap
+ * FUSE_DELETE_STALE: delete dentry if timeout is zero
*/
#define FUSE_ASYNC_READ (1 << 0)
#define FUSE_POSIX_LOCKS (1 << 1)
@@ -450,6 +451,7 @@ struct fuse_file_lock {
#define FUSE_CREATE_SUPP_GROUP (1ULL << 34)
#define FUSE_HAS_EXPIRE_ONLY (1ULL << 35)
#define FUSE_DIRECT_IO_RELAX (1ULL << 36)
+#define FUSE_DELETE_STALE (1ULL << 37)

/**
* CUSE INIT request/reply flags
--
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