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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 06:59:29PM +0800, 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
> 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>


So what should I do with this patch? It includes fuse changes
but of course I can merge too if no one wants to bother either way...


> ---
>  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);
> -- 
> 2.29.2