[PATCH v2 1/6] libfs: Re-arrange locking in offset_iterate_dir()

[Chuck Lever]

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>

Liam and Matthew say that once the RCU read lock is released,
xa_state is not safe to re-use for the next xas_find() call. But the
RCU read lock must be released on each loop iteration so that
dput(), which might_sleep(), can be called safely.

Thus we are forced to walk the offset tree with fresh state for each
directory entry. xa_find() can do this for us, though it might be a
little less efficient than maintaining xa_state locally.

We believe that in the current code base, inode->i_rwsem provides
protection for the xa_state maintained in
offset_iterate_dir(). However, there is no guarantee that will
continue to be the case in the future.

Since offset_iterate_dir() doesn't build xa_state locally any more,
there's no longer a strong need for offset_find_next(). Clean up by
rolling these two helpers together.

Suggested-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <170785993027.11135.8830043889278631735.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/libfs.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index eec6031b0155..752e24c669d9 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -402,12 +402,13 @@ static loff_t offset_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
 	return vfs_setpos(file, offset, U32_MAX);
 }
 
-static struct dentry *offset_find_next(struct xa_state *xas)
+static struct dentry *offset_find_next(struct offset_ctx *octx, loff_t offset)
 {
 	struct dentry *child, *found = NULL;
+	XA_STATE(xas, &octx->xa, offset);
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	child = xas_next_entry(xas, U32_MAX);
+	child = xas_next_entry(&xas, U32_MAX);
 	if (!child)
 		goto out;
 	spin_lock(&child->d_lock);
@@ -430,12 +431,11 @@ static bool offset_dir_emit(struct dir_context *ctx, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 static void *offset_iterate_dir(struct inode *inode, struct dir_context *ctx)
 {
-	struct offset_ctx *so_ctx = inode->i_op->get_offset_ctx(inode);
-	XA_STATE(xas, &so_ctx->xa, ctx->pos);
+	struct offset_ctx *octx = inode->i_op->get_offset_ctx(inode);
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 
 	while (true) {
-		dentry = offset_find_next(&xas);
+		dentry = offset_find_next(octx, ctx->pos);
 		if (!dentry)
 			return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 
@@ -444,8 +444,8 @@ static void *offset_iterate_dir(struct inode *inode, struct dir_context *ctx)
 			break;
 		}
 
+		ctx->pos = dentry2offset(dentry) + 1;
 		dput(dentry);
-		ctx->pos = xas.xa_index + 1;
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }