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<title>write-behind: fix data corruption</title>
<updated>2020-04-07T11:20:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavi Hernandez</name>
<email>xhernandez@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-27T22:56:15+00:00</published>
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There was a bug in write-behind that allowed a previous completed write
to overwrite the overlapping region of data from a future write.

Suppose we want to send three writes (W1, W2 and W3). W1 and W2 are
sequential, and W3 writes at the same offset of W2:

    W2.offset = W3.offset = W1.offset + W1.size

Both W1 and W2 are sent in parallel. W3 is only sent after W2 completes.
So W3 should *always* overwrite the overlapping part of W2.

Suppose write-behind processes the requests from 2 concurrent threads:

    Thread 1                    Thread 2

    &lt;received W1&gt;
                                &lt;received W2&gt;
    wb_enqueue_tempted(W1)
    /* W1 is assigned gen X */
                                wb_enqueue_tempted(W2)
                                /* W2 is assigned gen X */

                                wb_process_queue()
                                  __wb_preprocess_winds()
                                    /* W1 and W2 are sequential and all
                                     * other requisites are met to merge
                                     * both requests. */
                                    __wb_collapse_small_writes(W1, W2)
                                    __wb_fulfill_request(W2)

                                  __wb_pick_unwinds() -&gt; W2
                                  /* In this case, since the request is
                                   * already fulfilled, wb_inode-&gt;gen
                                   * is not updated. */

                                wb_do_unwinds()
                                  STACK_UNWIND(W2)

                                /* The application has received the
                                 * result of W2, so it can send W3. */
                                &lt;received W3&gt;

                                wb_enqueue_tempted(W3)
                                /* W3 is assigned gen X */

                                wb_process_queue()
                                  /* Here we have W1 (which contains
                                   * the conflicting W2) and W3 with
                                   * same gen, so they are interpreted
                                   * as concurrent writes that do not
                                   * conflict. */
                                  __wb_pick_winds() -&gt; W3

                                wb_do_winds()
                                  STACK_WIND(W3)

    wb_process_queue()
      /* Eventually W1 will be
       * ready to be sent */
      __wb_pick_winds() -&gt; W1
      __wb_pick_unwinds() -&gt; W1
        /* Here wb_inode-&gt;gen is
         * incremented. */

    wb_do_unwinds()
      STACK_UNWIND(W1)

    wb_do_winds()
      STACK_WIND(W1)

So, as we can see, W3 is sent before W1, which shouldn't happen.

The problem is that wb_inode-&gt;gen is only incremented for requests that
have not been fulfilled but, after a merge, the request is marked as
fulfilled even though it has not been sent to the brick. This allows
that future requests are assigned to the same generation, which could
be internally reordered.

Solution:

Increment wb_inode-&gt;gen before any unwind, even if it's for a fulfilled
request.

Special thanks to Stefan Ring for writing a reproducer that has been
crucial to identify the issue.

Change-Id: Id4ab0f294a09aca9a863ecaeef8856474662ab45
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: #884
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There was a bug in write-behind that allowed a previous completed write
to overwrite the overlapping region of data from a future write.

Suppose we want to send three writes (W1, W2 and W3). W1 and W2 are
sequential, and W3 writes at the same offset of W2:

    W2.offset = W3.offset = W1.offset + W1.size

Both W1 and W2 are sent in parallel. W3 is only sent after W2 completes.
So W3 should *always* overwrite the overlapping part of W2.

Suppose write-behind processes the requests from 2 concurrent threads:

    Thread 1                    Thread 2

    &lt;received W1&gt;
                                &lt;received W2&gt;
    wb_enqueue_tempted(W1)
    /* W1 is assigned gen X */
                                wb_enqueue_tempted(W2)
                                /* W2 is assigned gen X */

                                wb_process_queue()
                                  __wb_preprocess_winds()
                                    /* W1 and W2 are sequential and all
                                     * other requisites are met to merge
                                     * both requests. */
                                    __wb_collapse_small_writes(W1, W2)
                                    __wb_fulfill_request(W2)

                                  __wb_pick_unwinds() -&gt; W2
                                  /* In this case, since the request is
                                   * already fulfilled, wb_inode-&gt;gen
                                   * is not updated. */

                                wb_do_unwinds()
                                  STACK_UNWIND(W2)

                                /* The application has received the
                                 * result of W2, so it can send W3. */
                                &lt;received W3&gt;

                                wb_enqueue_tempted(W3)
                                /* W3 is assigned gen X */

                                wb_process_queue()
                                  /* Here we have W1 (which contains
                                   * the conflicting W2) and W3 with
                                   * same gen, so they are interpreted
                                   * as concurrent writes that do not
                                   * conflict. */
                                  __wb_pick_winds() -&gt; W3

                                wb_do_winds()
                                  STACK_WIND(W3)

    wb_process_queue()
      /* Eventually W1 will be
       * ready to be sent */
      __wb_pick_winds() -&gt; W1
      __wb_pick_unwinds() -&gt; W1
        /* Here wb_inode-&gt;gen is
         * incremented. */

    wb_do_unwinds()
      STACK_UNWIND(W1)

    wb_do_winds()
      STACK_WIND(W1)

So, as we can see, W3 is sent before W1, which shouldn't happen.

The problem is that wb_inode-&gt;gen is only incremented for requests that
have not been fulfilled but, after a merge, the request is marked as
fulfilled even though it has not been sent to the brick. This allows
that future requests are assigned to the same generation, which could
be internally reordered.

Solution:

Increment wb_inode-&gt;gen before any unwind, even if it's for a fulfilled
request.

Special thanks to Stefan Ring for writing a reproducer that has been
crucial to identify the issue.

Change-Id: Id4ab0f294a09aca9a863ecaeef8856474662ab45
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: #884
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<entry>
<title>open-behind: fix missing fd reference</title>
<updated>2020-04-07T10:32:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavi Hernandez</name>
<email>xhernandez@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-08T17:36:45+00:00</published>
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Open behind was not keeping any reference on fd's pending to be
opened. This makes it possible that a concurrent close and an entry
fop (unlink, rename, ...) caused destruction of the fd while it
was still being used.

Change-Id: Ie9e992902cf2cd7be4af1f8b4e57af9bd6afd8e9
Fixes: #1028
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
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Open behind was not keeping any reference on fd's pending to be
opened. This makes it possible that a concurrent close and an entry
fop (unlink, rename, ...) caused destruction of the fd while it
was still being used.

Change-Id: Ie9e992902cf2cd7be4af1f8b4e57af9bd6afd8e9
Fixes: #1028
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>multiple: fix bad type cast</title>
<updated>2020-03-16T08:21:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavi Hernandez</name>
<email>xhernandez@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-20T13:14:32+00:00</published>
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When using inode_ctx_get() or inode_ctx_set(), a 'uint64_t *' is expected.
In many cases, the value to retrieve or store is a pointer, which will be
of smaller size in some architectures (for example 32-bits). In this case,
directly passing the address of the pointer casted to an 'uint64_t *' is
wrong and can cause memory corruption.

Backport of:
&gt; Change-Id: Iae616da9dda528df6743fa2f65ae5cff5ad23258
&gt; Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
&gt; Fixes: bz#1785611

Change-Id: Iae616da9dda528df6743fa2f65ae5cff5ad23258
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: bz#1785323
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When using inode_ctx_get() or inode_ctx_set(), a 'uint64_t *' is expected.
In many cases, the value to retrieve or store is a pointer, which will be
of smaller size in some architectures (for example 32-bits). In this case,
directly passing the address of the pointer casted to an 'uint64_t *' is
wrong and can cause memory corruption.

Backport of:
&gt; Change-Id: Iae616da9dda528df6743fa2f65ae5cff5ad23258
&gt; Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
&gt; Fixes: bz#1785611

Change-Id: Iae616da9dda528df6743fa2f65ae5cff5ad23258
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: bz#1785323
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>To fix readdir-ahead memory leak</title>
<updated>2020-01-10T05:59:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>HuangShujun</name>
<email>549702281@qq.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-05T08:07:10+00:00</published>
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Glusterfs client process has memory leak if create serveral files under one folder, and delete the folder.
According to statedump, the ref counts of readdir-ahead is bigger than zero in the inode table. Readdir-ahead get parent inode by inode_parent in rda_mark_inode_dirty when each rda_writev_cbk,the inode ref count of parent folder will be increased in inode_parent, but readdir-ahead do not unref it later.
The correction is unref the parent inode at the end of rda_mark_inode_dirty

Backport of:
&gt; Change-Id: Iee68ab1089cbc2fbc4185b93720fb1f66ee89524
&gt; Fixes: bz#1779055
&gt; Signed-off-by: HuangShujun &lt;549702281@qq.com&gt;

Change-Id: Iee68ab1089cbc2fbc4185b93720fb1f66ee89524
(cherry picked from commit 99044a5cedcff9a9eec40a07ecb32bd66271cd02)
Signed-off-by: Krutika Dhananjay &lt;kdhananj@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: bz#1789336
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Glusterfs client process has memory leak if create serveral files under one folder, and delete the folder.
According to statedump, the ref counts of readdir-ahead is bigger than zero in the inode table. Readdir-ahead get parent inode by inode_parent in rda_mark_inode_dirty when each rda_writev_cbk,the inode ref count of parent folder will be increased in inode_parent, but readdir-ahead do not unref it later.
The correction is unref the parent inode at the end of rda_mark_inode_dirty

Backport of:
&gt; Change-Id: Iee68ab1089cbc2fbc4185b93720fb1f66ee89524
&gt; Fixes: bz#1779055
&gt; Signed-off-by: HuangShujun &lt;549702281@qq.com&gt;

Change-Id: Iee68ab1089cbc2fbc4185b93720fb1f66ee89524
(cherry picked from commit 99044a5cedcff9a9eec40a07ecb32bd66271cd02)
Signed-off-by: Krutika Dhananjay &lt;kdhananj@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: bz#1789336
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>performance/md-cache: Do not skip caching of null character xattr values</title>
<updated>2019-12-19T12:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anoop C S</name>
<email>anoopcs@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-10T05:00:26+00:00</published>
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Null character string is a valid xattr value in file system. But for
those xattrs processed by md-cache, it does not update its entries if
value is null('\0'). This results in ENODATA when those xattrs are
queried afterwards via getxattr() causing failures in basic operations
like create, copy etc in a specially configured Samba setup for Mac OS
clients.

On the other side snapview-server is internally setting empty string("")
as value for xattrs received as part of listxattr() and are not intended
to be cached. Therefore we try to maintain that behaviour using an
additional dictionary key to prevent updation of entries in getxattr()
and fgetxattr() callbacks in md-cache.

Credits: Poornima G &lt;pgurusid@redhat.com&gt;

Change-Id: I7859cbad0a06ca6d788420c2a495e658699c6ff7
Fixes: bz#1785228
Signed-off-by: Anoop C S &lt;anoopcs@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from commit b4b683736367d93daad08a5ee6ca95778c07c5a4)
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Null character string is a valid xattr value in file system. But for
those xattrs processed by md-cache, it does not update its entries if
value is null('\0'). This results in ENODATA when those xattrs are
queried afterwards via getxattr() causing failures in basic operations
like create, copy etc in a specially configured Samba setup for Mac OS
clients.

On the other side snapview-server is internally setting empty string("")
as value for xattrs received as part of listxattr() and are not intended
to be cached. Therefore we try to maintain that behaviour using an
additional dictionary key to prevent updation of entries in getxattr()
and fgetxattr() callbacks in md-cache.

Credits: Poornima G &lt;pgurusid@redhat.com&gt;

Change-Id: I7859cbad0a06ca6d788420c2a495e658699c6ff7
Fixes: bz#1785228
Signed-off-by: Anoop C S &lt;anoopcs@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from commit b4b683736367d93daad08a5ee6ca95778c07c5a4)
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Detach iot_worker to release its resources</title>
<updated>2019-11-13T04:53:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liguang Li</name>
<email>liguang.lee6@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-05T08:01:20+00:00</published>
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When iot_worker terminates, its resources have not been reaped, which
will consumes lots of memory.

Detach iot_worker to automically release its resources back to the
system.

Change-Id: I71fabb2940e76ad54dc56b4c41aeeead2644b8bb
fixes: bz#1768742
Signed-off-by: Liguang Li &lt;liguang.lee6@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: N Balachandran &lt;nbalacha@redhat.com&gt;
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When iot_worker terminates, its resources have not been reaped, which
will consumes lots of memory.

Detach iot_worker to automically release its resources back to the
system.

Change-Id: I71fabb2940e76ad54dc56b4c41aeeead2644b8bb
fixes: bz#1768742
Signed-off-by: Liguang Li &lt;liguang.lee6@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: N Balachandran &lt;nbalacha@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/write-behind: Clear frame-&gt;local on conflict error</title>
<updated>2019-09-27T14:43:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>N Balachandran</name>
<email>nbalacha@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-25T14:20:27+00:00</published>
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WB saves the wb_inode in frame-&gt;local for the truncate and
ftruncate fops. This value is not cleared in case of error
on a conflicting write request. FRAME_DESTROY finds a non-null
frame-&gt;local and tries to free it using mem_put. However,
wb_inode is allocated using GF_CALLOC, causing the
process to crash.

credit: vpolakis@gmail.com

Change-Id: I217f61470445775e05145aebe44c814731c1b8c5
fixes: bz#1755678
Signed-off-by: N Balachandran &lt;nbalacha@redhat.com&gt;
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WB saves the wb_inode in frame-&gt;local for the truncate and
ftruncate fops. This value is not cleared in case of error
on a conflicting write request. FRAME_DESTROY finds a non-null
frame-&gt;local and tries to free it using mem_put. However,
wb_inode is allocated using GF_CALLOC, causing the
process to crash.

credit: vpolakis@gmail.com

Change-Id: I217f61470445775e05145aebe44c814731c1b8c5
fixes: bz#1755678
Signed-off-by: N Balachandran &lt;nbalacha@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>md-cache: only update generation for inode at upcall and NULL stat</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T09:13:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kinglong Mee</name>
<email>mijinlong@open-fs.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-26T07:20:33+00:00</published>
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1. For parallel writes from nfs-ganesha, two fops with two generations,
   but the fops reply maybe returned disordered.
2. The inode md-cache timeout should not increase conf-&gt;generation.

With this patch,
1, Fop only gets generation from inode md-cache or conf, does not increase it.
2. The generation is increased at upcall invalidate, estal/enoent error
   invalidate, reply with zeroed out stat from write-behind.

Change-Id: I897ecaa143fd18bc024c1948c7d1a6f831fd53da
Updates: bz#1683594
Signed-off-by: Kinglong Mee &lt;mijinlong@open-fs.com&gt;
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1. For parallel writes from nfs-ganesha, two fops with two generations,
   but the fops reply maybe returned disordered.
2. The inode md-cache timeout should not increase conf-&gt;generation.

With this patch,
1, Fop only gets generation from inode md-cache or conf, does not increase it.
2. The generation is increased at upcall invalidate, estal/enoent error
   invalidate, reply with zeroed out stat from write-behind.

Change-Id: I897ecaa143fd18bc024c1948c7d1a6f831fd53da
Updates: bz#1683594
Signed-off-by: Kinglong Mee &lt;mijinlong@open-fs.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>multiple files: another attempt to remove includes</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T16:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yaniv Kaul</name>
<email>ykaul@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-09T10:31:31+00:00</published>
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There are many include statements that are not needed.
A previous more ambitious attempt failed because of *BSD plafrom
(see https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/21929/ )

Now trying a more conservative reduction.
It does not solve all circular deps that we have, but it
does reduce some of them. There is just too much to handle
reasonably (dht-common.h includes dht-lock.h which includes
dht-common.h ...), but it does reduce the overall number of lines
of include we need to look at in the future to understand and fix
the mess later one.

Change-Id: I550cd001bdefb8be0fe67632f783c0ef6bee3f9f
updates: bz#1193929
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kaul &lt;ykaul@redhat.com&gt;
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There are many include statements that are not needed.
A previous more ambitious attempt failed because of *BSD plafrom
(see https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/21929/ )

Now trying a more conservative reduction.
It does not solve all circular deps that we have, but it
does reduce some of them. There is just too much to handle
reasonably (dht-common.h includes dht-lock.h which includes
dht-common.h ...), but it does reduce the overall number of lines
of include we need to look at in the future to understand and fix
the mess later one.

Change-Id: I550cd001bdefb8be0fe67632f783c0ef6bee3f9f
updates: bz#1193929
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kaul &lt;ykaul@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libglusterfs: cleanup iovec functions</title>
<updated>2019-06-11T13:28:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavi Hernandez</name>
<email>xhernandez@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-31T16:40:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.gluster.org/cgit/glusterfs.git/commit/?id=952cf7e4f4393fcd9cf8c16b013d8f28915c990e'/>
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This patch cleans some iovec code and creates two additional helper
functions to simplify management of iovec structures.

  iov_range_copy(struct iovec *dst, uint32_t dst_count, uint32_t dst_offset,
                 struct iovec *src, uint32_t src_count, uint32_t src_offset,
                 uint32_t size);

    This function copies up to 'size' bytes from 'src' at offset
    'src_offset' to 'dst' at 'dst_offset'. It returns the number of
    bytes copied.

  iov_skip(struct iovec *iovec, uint32_t count, uint32_t size);

    This function removes the initial 'size' bytes from 'iovec' and
    returns the updated number of iovec vectors remaining.

The signature of iov_subset() has also been modified to make it safer
and easier to use. The new signature is:

  iov_subset(struct iovec *src, int src_count, uint32_t start, uint32_t size,
             struct iovec **dst, int32_t dst_count);

    This function creates a new iovec array containing the subset of the
    'src' vector starting at 'start' with size 'size'. The resulting
    array is allocated if '*dst' is NULL, or copied to '*dst' if it fits
    (based on 'dst_count'). It returns the number of iovec vectors used.

A new set of functions to iterate through an iovec array have been
created. They can be used to simplify the implementation of other
iovec-based helper functions.

Change-Id: Ia5fe57e388e23392a8d6cdab17670e337cadd587
Updates: bz#1193929
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch cleans some iovec code and creates two additional helper
functions to simplify management of iovec structures.

  iov_range_copy(struct iovec *dst, uint32_t dst_count, uint32_t dst_offset,
                 struct iovec *src, uint32_t src_count, uint32_t src_offset,
                 uint32_t size);

    This function copies up to 'size' bytes from 'src' at offset
    'src_offset' to 'dst' at 'dst_offset'. It returns the number of
    bytes copied.

  iov_skip(struct iovec *iovec, uint32_t count, uint32_t size);

    This function removes the initial 'size' bytes from 'iovec' and
    returns the updated number of iovec vectors remaining.

The signature of iov_subset() has also been modified to make it safer
and easier to use. The new signature is:

  iov_subset(struct iovec *src, int src_count, uint32_t start, uint32_t size,
             struct iovec **dst, int32_t dst_count);

    This function creates a new iovec array containing the subset of the
    'src' vector starting at 'start' with size 'size'. The resulting
    array is allocated if '*dst' is NULL, or copied to '*dst' if it fits
    (based on 'dst_count'). It returns the number of iovec vectors used.

A new set of functions to iterate through an iovec array have been
created. They can be used to simplify the implementation of other
iovec-based helper functions.

Change-Id: Ia5fe57e388e23392a8d6cdab17670e337cadd587
Updates: bz#1193929
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez &lt;xhernandez@redhat.com&gt;
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