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Jeffle Xu
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c838305450 |
cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie
Fscache/CacheFiles used to serve as a local cache for a remote networking fs. A new on-demand read mode will be introduced for CacheFiles, which can boost the scenario where on-demand read semantics are needed, e.g. container image distribution. The essential difference between these two modes is seen when a cache miss occurs: In the original mode, the netfs will fetch the data from the remote server and then write it to the cache file; in on-demand read mode, fetching the data and writing it into the cache is delegated to a user daemon. As the first step, notify the user daemon when looking up cookie. In this case, an anonymous fd is sent to the user daemon, through which the user daemon can write the fetched data to the cache file. Since the user daemon may move the anonymous fd around, e.g. through dup(), an object ID uniquely identifying the cache file is also attached. Also add one advisory flag (FSCACHE_ADV_WANT_CACHE_SIZE) suggesting that the cache file size shall be retrieved at runtime. This helps the scenario where one cache file contains multiple netfs files, e.g. for the purpose of deduplication. In this case, netfs itself has no idea the size of the cache file, whilst the user daemon should give the hint on it. Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509074028.74954-3-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> |
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David Howells
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287fd61123 |
cachefiles: Implement begin and end I/O operation
Implement the methods for beginning and ending an I/O operation. When called to begin an I/O operation, we are guaranteed that the cookie has reached a certain stage (we're called by fscache after it has done a suitable wait). If a file is available, we paste a ref over into the cache resources for the I/O routines to use. This means that the object can be invalidated whilst the I/O is ongoing without the need to synchronise as the file pointer in the object is replaced, but the file pointer in the cache resources is unaffected. Ending the operation just requires ditching any refs we have and dropping the access guarantee that fscache got for us on the cookie. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819645033.215744.2199344081658268312.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906951916.143852.9531384743995679857.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967161222.1823006.4461476204800357263.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021559030.640689.3684291785218094142.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 |
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David Howells
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72b957856b |
cachefiles: Implement metadata/coherency data storage in xattrs
Use an xattr on each backing file in the cache to store some metadata, such
as the content type and the coherency data.
Five content types are defined:
(0) No content stored.
(1) The file contains a single monolithic blob and must be all or nothing.
This would be used for something like an AFS directory or a symlink.
(2) The file is populated with content completely up to a point with
nothing beyond that.
(3) The file has a map attached and is sparsely populated. This would be
stored in one or more additional xattrs.
(4) The file is dirty, being in the process of local modification and the
contents are not necessarily represented correctly by the metadata.
The file should be deleted if this is seen on binding.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819641320.215744.16346770087799536862.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906942248.143852.5423738045012094252.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967151734.1823006.9301249989443622576.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021550471.640689.553853918307994335.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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David Howells
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5d439467b8 |
cachefiles: Implement key to filename encoding
Implement a function to encode a binary cookie key as something that can be
used as a filename. Four options are considered:
(1) All printable chars with no '/' characters. Prepend a 'D' to indicate
the encoding but otherwise use as-is.
(2) Appears to be an array of __be32. Encode as 'S' plus a list of
hex-encoded 32-bit ints separated by commas. If a number is 0, it is
rendered as "" instead of "0".
(3) Appears to be an array of __le32. Encoded as (2) but with a 'T'
encoding prefix.
(4) Encoded as base64 with an 'E' prefix plus a second char indicating how
much padding is involved. A non-standard base64 encoding is used
because '/' cannot be used in the encoded form.
If (1) is not possible, whichever of (2), (3) or (4) produces the shortest
string is selected (hex-encoding a number may be less dense than base64
encoding it).
Note that the prefix characters have to be selected from the set [DEIJST@]
lest cachefilesd remove the files because it recognise the name.
Changes
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ver #2:
- Fix a short allocation that didn't allow for a string terminator[1]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bcefb8f2-576a-b3fc-cc29-89808ebfd7c1@linux.alibaba.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819640393.215744.15212364106412961104.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906940529.143852.17352132319136117053.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967149827.1823006.6088580775428487961.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021549223.640689.14762875188193982341.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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David Howells
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fe2140e2f5 |
cachefiles: Implement volume support
Implement support for creating the directory layout for a volume on disk and setting up and withdrawing volume caching. Each volume has a directory named for the volume key under the root of the cache (prefixed with an 'I' to indicate to cachefilesd that it's an index) and then creates a bunch of hash bucket subdirectories under that (named as '@' plus a hex number) in which cookie files will be created. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819635314.215744.13081522301564537723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906936397.143852.17788457778396467161.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967143860.1823006.7185205806080225038.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021545212.640689.5064821392307582927.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 |
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David Howells
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d1065b0a6f |
cachefiles: Implement cache registration and withdrawal
Do the following:
(1) Fill out cachefiles_daemon_add_cache() so that it sets up the cache
directories and registers the cache with cachefiles.
(2) Add a function to do the top-level part of cache withdrawal and
unregistration.
(3) Add a function to sync a cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819633175.215744.10857127598041268340.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906935445.143852.15545194974036410029.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967142904.1823006.244055483596047072.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021543872.640689.14370017789605073222.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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David Howells
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1bd9c4e4f0 |
vfs, cachefiles: Mark a backing file in use with an inode flag
Use an inode flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, to mark that a backing file is in use by the kernel to prevent cachefiles or other kernel services from interfering with that file. Alter rmdir to reject attempts to remove a directory marked with this flag. This is used by cachefiles to prevent cachefilesd from removing them. Using S_SWAPFILE instead isn't really viable as that has other effects in the I/O paths. Changes ======= ver #3: - Check for the object pointer being NULL in the tracepoints rather than the caller. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819630256.215744.4815885535039369574.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906931596.143852.8642051223094013028.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967141000.1823006.12920680657559677789.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021541207.640689.564689725898537127.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 |
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David Howells
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80f94f29f6 |
cachefiles: Provide a function to check how much space there is
Provide a function to check how much space there is. This also flips the state on the cache and will signal the daemon to inform it of the change and to ask it to do some culling if necessary. We will also need to subtract the amount of data currently being written to the cache (cache->b_writing) from the amount of available space to avoid hitting ENOSPC accidentally. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819629322.215744.13457425294680841213.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906930100.143852.1681026700865762069.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967140058.1823006.7781243664702837128.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021539957.640689.12477177372616805706.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 |
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David Howells
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8667d434b2 |
cachefiles: Register a miscdev and parse commands over it
Register a misc device with which to talk to the daemon. The misc device holds a cache set up through it around and closing the device kills the cache. cachefilesd communicates with the kernel by passing it single-line text commands. Parse these and use them to parameterise the cache state. This does not implement the command to actually bring a cache online. That's left for later. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819628388.215744.17712097043607299608.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906929128.143852.14065207858943654011.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967139085.1823006.3514846391807454287.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021538400.640689.9172006906288062041.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 |
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David Howells
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254947d479 |
cachefiles: Add security derivation
Implement code to derive a new set of creds for the cachefiles to use when making VFS or I/O calls and to change the auditing info since the application interacting with the network filesystem is not accessing the cache directly. Cachefiles uses override_creds() to change the effective creds temporarily. set_security_override_from_ctx() is called to derive the LSM 'label' that the cachefiles driver will act with. set_create_files_as() is called to determine the LSM 'label' that will be applied to files and directories created in the cache. These functions alter the new creds. Also implement a couple of functions to wrap the calls to begin/end cred overriding. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819627469.215744.3603633690679962985.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906928172.143852.15886637013364286786.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967138138.1823006.7620933448261939504.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021537001.640689.4081334436031700558.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 |
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David Howells
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a70f652626 |
cachefiles: Add some error injection support
Add support for injecting ENOSPC or EIO errors. This needs to be enabled
by CONFIG_CACHEFILES_ERROR_INJECTION=y. Once enabled, ENOSPC on things
like write and mkdir can be triggered by:
echo 1 >/proc/sys/cachefiles/error_injection
and EIO can be triggered on most operations by:
echo 2 >/proc/sys/cachefiles/error_injection
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819624706.215744.6911916249119962943.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906925343.143852.5465695512984025812.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967134412.1823006.7354285948280296595.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021532340.640689.18209494225772443698.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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David Howells
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77443f6171 |
cachefiles: Introduce rewritten driver
Introduce basic skeleton of the rewritten cachefiles driver including config options so that it can be enabled for compilation. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819622766.215744.9108359326983195047.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906923341.143852.3856498104256721447.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967130320.1823006.15791456613198441566.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021528993.640689.9069695476048171884.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 |
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David Howells
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850cba069c |
cachefiles: Delete the cachefiles driver pending rewrite
Delete the code from the cachefiles driver to make it easier to rewrite and resubmit in a logical manner. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819577641.215744.12718114397770666596.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906883770.143852.4149714614981373410.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967076066.1823006.7175712134577687753.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021483619.640689.7586546280515844702.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 |
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David Howells
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6ae9bd8bb0 |
fscache, cachefiles: Remove the histogram stuff
Remove the histogram stuff as it's mostly going to be outdated. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162431195953.2908479.16770977195634296638.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ |
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David Howells
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26aaeffcaf |
fscache, cachefiles: Add alternate API to use kiocb for read/write to cache
Add an alternate API by which the cache can be accessed through a kiocb, doing async DIO, rather than using the current API that tells the cache where all the pages are. The new API is intended to be used in conjunction with the netfs helper library. A filesystem must pick one or the other and not mix them. Filesystems wanting to use the new API must #define FSCACHE_USE_NEW_IO_API before #including the header. This prevents them from continuing to use the old API at the same time as there are incompatibilities in how the PG_fscache page bit is used. Changes: v6: - Provide a routine to shape a write so that the start and length can be aligned for DIO[3]. v4: - Use the vfs_iocb_iter_read/write() helpers[1] - Move initial definition of fscache_begin_read_operation() here. - Remove a commented-out line[2] - Combine ki->term_func calls in cachefiles_read_complete()[2]. - Remove explicit NULL initialiser[2]. - Remove extern on func decl[2]. - Put in param names on func decl[2]. - Remove redundant else[2]. - Fill out the kdoc comment for fscache_begin_read_operation(). - Rename fs/fscache/page2.c to io.c to match later patches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com> Tested-By: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210216102614.GA27555@lst.de/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210216084230.GA23669@lst.de/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161781047695.463527.7463536103593997492.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161118142558.1232039.17993829899588971439.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161161037850.2537118.8819808229350326503.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161340402057.1303470.8038373593844486698.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539545919.286939.14573472672781434757.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653801477.2770958.10543270629064934227.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789084517.6155.12799689829859169640.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6 |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman
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b24413180f |
License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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David Howells
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CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a backing store for the cache. CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as reaping stale nodes and culling. This is called cachefilesd and lives in /sbin. The source for the daemon can be downloaded from: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c And an example configuration from: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the filesystem providing the backing services. Note that CacheFiles does not attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various filesystems are very specific in nature. CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used to communication with the daemon. Only one thing may have this open at once, and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence. The daemon opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache. CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache. CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section. This means it can be placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more space. ============ REQUIREMENTS ============ The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be available in the system and in the cache filesystem: - dnotify. - extended attributes (xattrs). - openat() and friends. - bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl). - The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file. It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3 filesystems being used as a cache. ============= CONFIGURATION ============= The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf. These commands set up cache ready for use. The following script commands are available: (*) brun <N>% (*) bcull <N>% (*) bstop <N>% (*) frun <N>% (*) fcull <N>% (*) fstop <N>% Configure the culling limits. Optional. See the section on culling The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively. The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those beginning with an 'f' are file count limits. (*) dir <path> Specify the directory containing the root of the cache. Mandatory. (*) tag <name> Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches. Optional. The default is "CacheFiles". (*) debug <mask> Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module. Optional. The default is zero (all off). The following values can be OR'd into the mask to collect various information: 1 Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros) 2 Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros) 4 Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug()) This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg: echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug ================== STARTING THE CACHE ================== The cache is started by running the daemon. The daemon opens the cache device, configures the cache and tells it to begin caching. At that point the cache binds to fscache and the cache becomes live. The daemon is run as follows: /sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>] The flags are: (*) -d Increase the debugging level. This can be specified multiple times and is cumulative with itself. (*) -s Send messages to stderr instead of syslog. (*) -n Don't daemonise and go into background. (*) -f <configfile> Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one. =============== THINGS TO AVOID =============== Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems. The kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them. Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain. Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the filename is part of the lookup key). Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused. Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or serve incorrect data. Do not chmod files in the cache. The module creates things with minimal permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly. ============= CACHE CULLING ============= The cache may need culling occasionally to make space. This involves discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than anything else. Culling is based on the access time of data objects. Empty directories are culled if not in use. Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem. There are six "limits": (*) brun (*) frun If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off. (*) bcull (*) fcull If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started. (*) bstop (*) fstop If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above these limits again. These must be configured thusly: 0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100 0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100 Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do _not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program. The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects. These are then culled in least recently used order. A new scan of the cache is started as soon as space is made in the table. Objects will be skipped if their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them. =============== CACHE STRUCTURE =============== The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was given: (*) cache/ (*) graveyard/ The active cache objects all reside in the first directory. The CacheFiles kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them. The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete anything that appears therein. The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or "J...". Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index. Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories if they do. Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...". If represented as a directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that actually holds the data. Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin "S..." or "T...". If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory. Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended. Into this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child objects: INDEX INDEX INDEX DATA FILES ========= ========== ================================= ================ cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400 cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects inside the last directory. The names of the intermediate directories will have '+' prepended: J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size, they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not be suitable for turning directly into a filename. To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and "base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable. The two versions of object filenames indicate the encoding: OBJECT TYPE PRINTABLE ENCODED =============== =============== =============== Index "I..." "J..." Data "D..." "E..." Special "S..." "T..." Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate. Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from the netfs. The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update or retire them. Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file). ========================== SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX ========================== CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility. One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other processes. The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid, fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly). When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it: (1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses that as the security label with which it will create files. By default, this is: cachefiles_var_t (2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request (presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be: cachefilesd_t and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the daemon's label. By default, this will be: cachefiles_kernel_t SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID based on a rule of this form in the policy. type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>; For instance: type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t; The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and write files in the cache. The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories. It may not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache. There are policy source files available in: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2 and later versions. In that tarball, see the files: cachefilesd.te cachefilesd.fc cachefilesd.if They are built and installed directly by the RPM. If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own directory and run: make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile semodule -i cachefilesd.pp You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the build. By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the cache. For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see: /usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found in the sources. ================== A NOTE ON SECURITY ================== CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct. It allocates its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context. The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than bypassing security and calling inode ops directly. Therefore the VFS and LSM may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever process issued the original syscall on the netfs. Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's cache management daemon (cachefilesd). What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that issued the system call. We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject. This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what the process looks like in /proc. So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as). The objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for example). The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and may be overridden. This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a file. LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create files and directories with another security label. This documentation is added by the patch to: Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com> |