Re: [PATCH] virtiofs: limit the length of ITER_KVEC dio by max_nopage_rw

From: Bernd Schubert
Date: Tue Jan 09 2024 - 08:12:16 EST




On 1/3/24 11:59, Hou Tao wrote:
From: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx>

When trying to insert a 10MB kernel module kept in a virtiofs with cache
disabled, the following warning was reported:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 439 at mm/page_alloc.c:4544 ......
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 439 Comm: insmod Not tainted 6.7.0-rc7+ #33
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ......
RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x2c4/0x360
......
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __warn+0x8f/0x150
? __alloc_pages+0x2c4/0x360
__kmalloc_large_node+0x86/0x160
__kmalloc+0xcd/0x140
virtio_fs_enqueue_req+0x240/0x6d0
virtio_fs_wake_pending_and_unlock+0x7f/0x190
queue_request_and_unlock+0x58/0x70
fuse_simple_request+0x18b/0x2e0
fuse_direct_io+0x58a/0x850
fuse_file_read_iter+0xdb/0x130
__kernel_read+0xf3/0x260
kernel_read+0x45/0x60
kernel_read_file+0x1ad/0x2b0
init_module_from_file+0x6a/0xe0
idempotent_init_module+0x179/0x230
__x64_sys_finit_module+0x5d/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x36/0xb0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
......
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The warning happened as follow. In copy_args_to_argbuf(), virtiofs uses
kmalloc-ed memory as bound buffer for fuse args, but
fuse_get_user_pages() only limits the length of fuse arg by max_read or
max_write for IOV_KVEC io (e.g., kernel_read_file from finit_module()).
For virtiofs, max_read is UINT_MAX, so a big read request which is about


I find this part of the explanation a bit confusing. I guess you wanted to write something like

fuse_direct_io() -> fuse_get_user_pages() is limited by fc->max_write/fc->max_read and fc->max_pages. For virtiofs max_pages does not apply as ITER_KVEC is used. As virtiofs sets fc->max_read to UINT_MAX basically no limit is applied at all.

I also wonder if it wouldn't it make sense to set a sensible limit in
virtio_fs_ctx_set_defaults() instead of introducing a new variable?

Also, I guess the issue is kmalloc_array() in virtio_fs_enqueue_req? Wouldn't it make sense to use kvm_alloc_array/kvfree in that function?


Thanks,
Bernd


10MB is passed to copy_args_to_argbuf(), kmalloc() is called in turn
with len=10MB, and triggers the warning in __alloc_pages():
WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_ORDER, gfp)).

A feasible solution is to limit the value of max_read for virtiofs, so
the length passed to kmalloc() will be limited. However it will affects
the max read size for ITER_IOVEC io and the value of max_write also needs
limitation. So instead of limiting the values of max_read and max_write,
introducing max_nopage_rw to cap both the values of max_read and
max_write when the fuse dio read/write request is initiated from kernel.

Considering that fuse read/write request from kernel is uncommon and to
decrease the demand for large contiguous pages, set max_nopage_rw as
256KB instead of KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE - 4096 or similar.

Fixes: a62a8ef9d97d ("virtio-fs: add virtiofs filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/file.c | 12 +++++++++++-
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 3 +++
fs/fuse/inode.c | 1 +
fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 6 ++++++
4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
index a660f1f21540..f1beb7c0b782 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/file.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
@@ -1422,6 +1422,16 @@ static int fuse_get_user_pages(struct fuse_args_pages *ap, struct iov_iter *ii,
return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;
}
+static size_t fuse_max_dio_rw_size(const struct fuse_conn *fc,
+ const struct iov_iter *iter, int write)
+{
+ unsigned int nmax = write ? fc->max_write : fc->max_read;
+
+ if (iov_iter_is_kvec(iter))
+ nmax = min(nmax, fc->max_nopage_rw);
+ return nmax;
+}
+
ssize_t fuse_direct_io(struct fuse_io_priv *io, struct iov_iter *iter,
loff_t *ppos, int flags)
{
@@ -1432,7 +1442,7 @@ ssize_t fuse_direct_io(struct fuse_io_priv *io, struct iov_iter *iter,
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
struct fuse_file *ff = file->private_data;
struct fuse_conn *fc = ff->fm->fc;
- size_t nmax = write ? fc->max_write : fc->max_read;
+ size_t nmax = fuse_max_dio_rw_size(fc, iter, write);
loff_t pos = *ppos;
size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter);
pgoff_t idx_from = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
index 1df83eebda92..fc753cd34211 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
+++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -594,6 +594,9 @@ struct fuse_conn {
/** Constrain ->max_pages to this value during feature negotiation */
unsigned int max_pages_limit;
+ /** Maximum read/write size when there is no page in request */
+ unsigned int max_nopage_rw;
+
/** Input queue */
struct fuse_iqueue iq;
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index 2a6d44f91729..4cbbcb4a4b71 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -923,6 +923,7 @@ void fuse_conn_init(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_mount *fm,
fc->user_ns = get_user_ns(user_ns);
fc->max_pages = FUSE_DEFAULT_MAX_PAGES_PER_REQ;
fc->max_pages_limit = FUSE_MAX_MAX_PAGES;
+ fc->max_nopage_rw = UINT_MAX;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->mounts);
list_add(&fm->fc_entry, &fc->mounts);
diff --git a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
index 5f1be1da92ce..3aac31d45198 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
@@ -1452,6 +1452,12 @@ static int virtio_fs_get_tree(struct fs_context *fsc)
/* Tell FUSE to split requests that exceed the virtqueue's size */
fc->max_pages_limit = min_t(unsigned int, fc->max_pages_limit,
virtqueue_size - FUSE_HEADER_OVERHEAD);
+ /* copy_args_to_argbuf() uses kmalloc-ed memory as bounce buffer
+ * for fuse args, so limit the total size of these args to prevent
+ * the warning in __alloc_pages() and decrease the demand for large
+ * contiguous pages.
+ */
+ fc->max_nopage_rw = min(fc->max_nopage_rw, 256U << 10);
fsc->s_fs_info = fm;
sb = sget_fc(fsc, virtio_fs_test_super, set_anon_super_fc);