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fuse: Add FOPEN_STREAM to use stream_open()

Starting from commit 9c225f2655e3 ("vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX") files opened even via nonseekable_open gate read and write via lock and do not allow them to be run simultaneously. This can create read vs write deadlock if a filesystem is trying to implement a socket-like file which is intended to be simultaneously used for both read and write from filesystem client. See commit 10dce8af3422 ("fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock") for details and e.g. commit 581d21a2d02a ("xenbus: fix deadlock on writes to /proc/xen/xenbus") for a similar deadlock example on /proc/xen/xenbus. To avoid such deadlock it was tempting to adjust fuse_finish_open to use stream_open instead of nonseekable_open on just FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE flags, but grepping through Debian codesearch shows users of FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE, and in particular GVFS which actually uses offset in its read and write handlers https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=-%3Enonseekable+%3D https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1080 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1247-1346 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/1.40.0-6-gcbc54396/client/gvfsfusedaemon.c#L1399-1481 so if we would do such a change it will break a real user. Add another flag (FOPEN_STREAM) for filesystem servers to indicate that the opened handler is having stream-like semantics; does not use file position and thus the kernel is free to issue simultaneous read and write request on opened file handle. This patch together with stream_open() should be added to stable kernels starting from v3.14+. This will allow to patch OSSPD and other FUSE filesystems that provide stream-like files to return FOPEN_STREAM | FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE in open handler and this way avoid the deadlock on all kernel versions. This should work because fuse_finish_open ignores unknown open flags returned from a filesystem and so passing FOPEN_STREAM to a kernel that is not aware of this flag cannot hurt. In turn the kernel that is not aware of FOPEN_STREAM will be < v3.14 where just FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE is sufficient to implement streams without read vs write deadlock.

Kirill Smelkov committed 7 years ago

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@@ -232,11 +232,13 @@ struct fuse_file_lock { · 231 unmodified lines
232 * FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE: don't invalidate the data cache on open232 * FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE: don't invalidate the data cache on open
233 * FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE: the file is not seekable233 * FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE: the file is not seekable
234 * FOPEN_CACHE_DIR: allow caching this directory234 * FOPEN_CACHE_DIR: allow caching this directory
235 * FOPEN_STREAM: the file is stream-like (no file position at all)
235 */236 */
236#define FOPEN_DIRECT_IO (1 << 0)237#define FOPEN_DIRECT_IO (1 << 0)
237#define FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE (1 << 1)238#define FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE (1 << 1)
238#define FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE (1 << 2)239#define FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE (1 << 2)
239#define FOPEN_CACHE_DIR (1 << 3)240#define FOPEN_CACHE_DIR (1 << 3)
241#define FOPEN_STREAM (1 << 4)
240 242
241/**243/**
242 * INIT request/reply flags244 * INIT request/reply flags