loopback: fix race condition opening loopback device #2039
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move the stat call later after the file is already opened so it is less vulnerable to the file being removed between the stat and the open syscall. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]>
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This is not my area of expertise, but I would say that this entire function needs a huge step back and refactoring. For instance, attachLoopDevice() calls getNextFreeLoopbackIndex(), and I don't think that's necessary: it should be done in openNextAvailableLoopback() itself, no? And lose the index arg? And the index++ therein? And possibly a lot more cleanup.
Also... again, the commit sequence is hard to follow.
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(Also xref containers/composefs#144 for the larger better fix) |
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I agree the module requires a refactoring, the error handling is quite unusual: everything is logged to stderr and it just reports The goal of this PR is to address a specific bug and the diff (except the new test) is very small so it can be easily backported it if needed.
what exactly should be changed?
how is that a NOP? It is part of a for loop. The
I am fine to change that, but it is still racy (another process can use that device) and it is slightly slower as we need an additional syscall |
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As for what should be changed, There is, AFAICT, no purpose whatsoever to Perhaps I've missed something, though? |
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/approve I like this one better, thanks. I do think there's more cleanup to do here but it can come as a followup. |
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the loopback device file could be already used/removed by another process. Since the process is inherently racy, just grab the next available index and try again until it succeeds. Closes: containers#2038 Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]>
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It actually has been around for years: For containers and other sandbox use cases, there will be thousands (and even more) of authenticated (sub)images running on the same host, unlike OS images. Of course, all scenarios can use the same EROFS on-disk format, but bdev-backed mounts just work well for OS images since golden data is dumped into real block devices. However, it's somewhat hard for container runtimes to manage and isolate so many unnecessary virtual block devices safely and efficiently [1]: they just look like a burden to orchestrators and file-backed mounts are preferred indeed. There were already enough attempts such as Incremental FS, the original ComposeFS and PuzzleFS acting in the same way for immutable fses. As for current EROFS users, ComposeFS, containerd and Android APEXs will be directly benefited from it. On the other hand, previous experimental feature "erofs over fscache" was once also intended to provide a similar solution (inspired by Incremental FS discussion [2]), but the following facts show file-backed mounts will be a better approach: - Fscache infrastructure has recently been moved into new Netfslib which is an unexpected dependency to EROFS really, although it originally claims "it could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too." [3] - It takes an unexpectedly long time to upstream Fscache/Cachefiles enhancements. For example, the failover feature took more than one year, and the deamonless feature is still far behind now; - Ongoing HSM "fanotify pre-content hooks" [4] together with this will perfectly supersede "erofs over fscache" in a simpler way since developers (mainly containerd folks) could leverage their existing caching mechanism entirely in userspace instead of strictly following the predefined in-kernel caching tree hierarchy. After "fanotify pre-content hooks" lands upstream to provide the same functionality, "erofs over fscache" will be removed then (as an EROFS internal improvement and EROFS will not have to bother with on-demand fetching and/or caching improvements anymore.) [1] containers/storage#2039 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxjbVxnubaPjVaGYiSwoGDTdpWbB=w_AeM6YM=zVixsUfQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/caching/fscache.html [4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Closes: containers/composefs#144 Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]>
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It actually has been around for years: For containers and other sandbox use cases, there will be thousands (and even more) of authenticated (sub)images running on the same host, unlike OS images. Of course, all scenarios can use the same EROFS on-disk format, but bdev-backed mounts just work well for OS images since golden data is dumped into real block devices. However, it's somewhat hard for container runtimes to manage and isolate so many unnecessary virtual block devices safely and efficiently [1]: they just look like a burden to orchestrators and file-backed mounts are preferred indeed. There were already enough attempts such as Incremental FS, the original ComposeFS and PuzzleFS acting in the same way for immutable fses. As for current EROFS users, ComposeFS, containerd and Android APEXs will be directly benefited from it. On the other hand, previous experimental feature "erofs over fscache" was once also intended to provide a similar solution (inspired by Incremental FS discussion [2]), but the following facts show file-backed mounts will be a better approach: - Fscache infrastructure has recently been moved into new Netfslib which is an unexpected dependency to EROFS really, although it originally claims "it could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too." [3] - It takes an unexpectedly long time to upstream Fscache/Cachefiles enhancements. For example, the failover feature took more than one year, and the deamonless feature is still far behind now; - Ongoing HSM "fanotify pre-content hooks" [4] together with this will perfectly supersede "erofs over fscache" in a simpler way since developers (mainly containerd folks) could leverage their existing caching mechanism entirely in userspace instead of strictly following the predefined in-kernel caching tree hierarchy. After "fanotify pre-content hooks" lands upstream to provide the same functionality, "erofs over fscache" will be removed then (as an EROFS internal improvement and EROFS will not have to bother with on-demand fetching and/or caching improvements anymore.) [1] containers/storage#2039 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxjbVxnubaPjVaGYiSwoGDTdpWbB=w_AeM6YM=zVixsUfQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/caching/fscache.html [4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Closes: containers/composefs#144 Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]>
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It actually has been around for years: For containers and other sandbox use cases, there will be thousands (and even more) of authenticated (sub)images running on the same host, unlike OS images. Of course, all scenarios can use the same EROFS on-disk format, but bdev-backed mounts just work well for OS images since golden data is dumped into real block devices. However, it's somewhat hard for container runtimes to manage and isolate so many unnecessary virtual block devices safely and efficiently [1]: they just look like a burden to orchestrators and file-backed mounts are preferred indeed. There were already enough attempts such as Incremental FS, the original ComposeFS and PuzzleFS acting in the same way for immutable fses. As for current EROFS users, ComposeFS, containerd and Android APEXs will be directly benefited from it. On the other hand, previous experimental feature "erofs over fscache" was once also intended to provide a similar solution (inspired by Incremental FS discussion [2]), but the following facts show file-backed mounts will be a better approach: - Fscache infrastructure has recently been moved into new Netfslib which is an unexpected dependency to EROFS really, although it originally claims "it could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too." [3] - It takes an unexpectedly long time to upstream Fscache/Cachefiles enhancements. For example, the failover feature took more than one year, and the deamonless feature is still far behind now; - Ongoing HSM "fanotify pre-content hooks" [4] together with this will perfectly supersede "erofs over fscache" in a simpler way since developers (mainly containerd folks) could leverage their existing caching mechanism entirely in userspace instead of strictly following the predefined in-kernel caching tree hierarchy. After "fanotify pre-content hooks" lands upstream to provide the same functionality, "erofs over fscache" will be removed then (as an EROFS internal improvement and EROFS will not have to bother with on-demand fetching and/or caching improvements anymore.) [1] containers/storage#2039 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxjbVxnubaPjVaGYiSwoGDTdpWbB=w_AeM6YM=zVixsUfQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/caching/fscache.html [4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Closes: containers/composefs#144 Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]>
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It actually has been around for years: For containers and other sandbox use cases, there will be thousands (and even more) of authenticated (sub)images running on the same host, unlike OS images. Of course, all scenarios can use the same EROFS on-disk format, but bdev-backed mounts just work well for OS images since golden data is dumped into real block devices. However, it's somewhat hard for container runtimes to manage and isolate so many unnecessary virtual block devices safely and efficiently [1]: they just look like a burden to orchestrators and file-backed mounts are preferred indeed. There were already enough attempts such as Incremental FS, the original ComposeFS and PuzzleFS acting in the same way for immutable fses. As for current EROFS users, ComposeFS, containerd and Android APEXs will be directly benefited from it. On the other hand, previous experimental feature "erofs over fscache" was once also intended to provide a similar solution (inspired by Incremental FS discussion [2]), but the following facts show file-backed mounts will be a better approach: - Fscache infrastructure has recently been moved into new Netfslib which is an unexpected dependency to EROFS really, although it originally claims "it could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too." [3] - It takes an unexpectedly long time to upstream Fscache/Cachefiles enhancements. For example, the failover feature took more than one year, and the deamonless feature is still far behind now; - Ongoing HSM "fanotify pre-content hooks" [4] together with this will perfectly supersede "erofs over fscache" in a simpler way since developers (mainly containerd folks) could leverage their existing caching mechanism entirely in userspace instead of strictly following the predefined in-kernel caching tree hierarchy. After "fanotify pre-content hooks" lands upstream to provide the same functionality, "erofs over fscache" will be removed then (as an EROFS internal improvement and EROFS will not have to bother with on-demand fetching and/or caching improvements anymore.) [1] containers/storage#2039 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxjbVxnubaPjVaGYiSwoGDTdpWbB=w_AeM6YM=zVixsUfQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/caching/fscache.html [4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Closes: containers/composefs#144 Reviewed-by: Sandeep Dhavale <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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It actually has been around for years: For containers and other sandbox use cases, there will be thousands (and even more) of authenticated (sub)images running on the same host, unlike OS images. Of course, all scenarios can use the same EROFS on-disk format, but bdev-backed mounts just work well for OS images since golden data is dumped into real block devices. However, it's somewhat hard for container runtimes to manage and isolate so many unnecessary virtual block devices safely and efficiently [1]: they just look like a burden to orchestrators and file-backed mounts are preferred indeed. There were already enough attempts such as Incremental FS, the original ComposeFS and PuzzleFS acting in the same way for immutable fses. As for current EROFS users, ComposeFS, containerd and Android APEXs will be directly benefited from it. On the other hand, previous experimental feature "erofs over fscache" was once also intended to provide a similar solution (inspired by Incremental FS discussion [2]), but the following facts show file-backed mounts will be a better approach: - Fscache infrastructure has recently been moved into new Netfslib which is an unexpected dependency to EROFS really, although it originally claims "it could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too." [3] - It takes an unexpectedly long time to upstream Fscache/Cachefiles enhancements. For example, the failover feature took more than one year, and the deamonless feature is still far behind now; - Ongoing HSM "fanotify pre-content hooks" [4] together with this will perfectly supersede "erofs over fscache" in a simpler way since developers (mainly containerd folks) could leverage their existing caching mechanism entirely in userspace instead of strictly following the predefined in-kernel caching tree hierarchy. After "fanotify pre-content hooks" lands upstream to provide the same functionality, "erofs over fscache" will be removed then (as an EROFS internal improvement and EROFS will not have to bother with on-demand fetching and/or caching improvements anymore.) [1] containers/storage#2039 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxjbVxnubaPjVaGYiSwoGDTdpWbB=w_AeM6YM=zVixsUfQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/caching/fscache.html [4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Closes: containers/composefs#144 Reviewed-by: Sandeep Dhavale <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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It actually has been around for years: For containers and other sandbox use cases, there will be thousands (and even more) of authenticated (sub)images running on the same host, unlike OS images. Of course, all scenarios can use the same EROFS on-disk format, but bdev-backed mounts just work well for OS images since golden data is dumped into real block devices. However, it's somewhat hard for container runtimes to manage and isolate so many unnecessary virtual block devices safely and efficiently [1]: they just look like a burden to orchestrators and file-backed mounts are preferred indeed. There were already enough attempts such as Incremental FS, the original ComposeFS and PuzzleFS acting in the same way for immutable fses. As for current EROFS users, ComposeFS, containerd and Android APEXs will be directly benefited from it. On the other hand, previous experimental feature "erofs over fscache" was once also intended to provide a similar solution (inspired by Incremental FS discussion [2]), but the following facts show file-backed mounts will be a better approach: - Fscache infrastructure has recently been moved into new Netfslib which is an unexpected dependency to EROFS really, although it originally claims "it could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too." [3] - It takes an unexpectedly long time to upstream Fscache/Cachefiles enhancements. For example, the failover feature took more than one year, and the deamonless feature is still far behind now; - Ongoing HSM "fanotify pre-content hooks" [4] together with this will perfectly supersede "erofs over fscache" in a simpler way since developers (mainly containerd folks) could leverage their existing caching mechanism entirely in userspace instead of strictly following the predefined in-kernel caching tree hierarchy. After "fanotify pre-content hooks" lands upstream to provide the same functionality, "erofs over fscache" will be removed then (as an EROFS internal improvement and EROFS will not have to bother with on-demand fetching and/or caching improvements anymore.) [1] containers/storage#2039 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxjbVxnubaPjVaGYiSwoGDTdpWbB=w_AeM6YM=zVixsUfQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/caching/fscache.html [4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Closes: containers/composefs#144 Reviewed-by: Sandeep Dhavale <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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It actually has been around for years: For containers and other sandbox use cases, there will be thousands (and even more) of authenticated (sub)images running on the same host, unlike OS images. Of course, all scenarios can use the same EROFS on-disk format, but bdev-backed mounts just work well for OS images since golden data is dumped into real block devices. However, it's somewhat hard for container runtimes to manage and isolate so many unnecessary virtual block devices safely and efficiently [1]: they just look like a burden to orchestrators and file-backed mounts are preferred indeed. There were already enough attempts such as Incremental FS, the original ComposeFS and PuzzleFS acting in the same way for immutable fses. As for current EROFS users, ComposeFS, containerd and Android APEXs will be directly benefited from it. On the other hand, previous experimental feature "erofs over fscache" was once also intended to provide a similar solution (inspired by Incremental FS discussion [2]), but the following facts show file-backed mounts will be a better approach: - Fscache infrastructure has recently been moved into new Netfslib which is an unexpected dependency to EROFS really, although it originally claims "it could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too." [3] - It takes an unexpectedly long time to upstream Fscache/Cachefiles enhancements. For example, the failover feature took more than one year, and the deamonless feature is still far behind now; - Ongoing HSM "fanotify pre-content hooks" [4] together with this will perfectly supersede "erofs over fscache" in a simpler way since developers (mainly containerd folks) could leverage their existing caching mechanism entirely in userspace instead of strictly following the predefined in-kernel caching tree hierarchy. After "fanotify pre-content hooks" lands upstream to provide the same functionality, "erofs over fscache" will be removed then (as an EROFS internal improvement and EROFS will not have to bother with on-demand fetching and/or caching improvements anymore.) [1] containers/storage#2039 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxjbVxnubaPjVaGYiSwoGDTdpWbB=w_AeM6YM=zVixsUfQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/caching/fscache.html [4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Closes: containers/composefs#144 Reviewed-by: Sandeep Dhavale <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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the loopback device file could be already used/removed by another process. Since the process is inherently racy, just grab the next available index and try again until it succeeds.
Closes: #2038