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Re: virtio-fs: Fix file ID collisions (was: 9p: Fix file ID collisions)


From: Christian Schoenebeck
Subject: Re: virtio-fs: Fix file ID collisions (was: 9p: Fix file ID collisions)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:42:52 +0200

On Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2019 11:20:39 CEST Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:05:28 +0200
> 
> Christian Schoenebeck <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I wonder though whether virtio-fs suffers from the same file ID collisions
> > problem when sharing multiple file systems.
> 
> I gave a try and it seems that virtio-fs might expose the inode numbers from
> different devices in the host, unvirtualized AND with the same device in
> the guest:
> 
> # mkdir -p /var/tmp/virtio-fs/proc
> # mount --bind /proc /var/tmp/virtio-fs/proc
> # virtiofsd -o vhost_user_socket=/tmp/vhostqemu -o source=/var/tmp/virtio-fs
> -o cache=always
> 
> and then started QEMU with:
> 
> -chardev socket,id=char0,path=/tmp/vhostqemu \
> -device vhost-user-fs-pci,queue-size=1024,chardev=char0,tag=myfs \
> -m 4G -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=4G,mem-path=/dev/shm,share=on
> \ -numa node,memdev=mem
> 
> In the host:
> 
> $ stat /var/tmp/virtio-fs
>   File: /var/tmp/virtio-fs
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 787796      Links: 4
> Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/    greg)   Gid: ( 1000/    greg)
> Context: unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0
> Access: 2019-10-15 11:08:52.070080922 +0200
> Modify: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.887404446 +0200
> Change: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.887404446 +0200
>  Birth: 2019-10-13 19:13:04.009699354 +0200
> [greg@bahia ~]$ stat /var/tmp/virtio-fs/FOO
>   File: /var/tmp/virtio-fs/FOO
>   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty
> file Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 790740      Links: 1
> Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/    greg)   Gid: ( 1000/    greg)
> Context: unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0
> Access: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.888404448 +0200
> Modify: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.888404448 +0200
> Change: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.888404448 +0200
>  Birth: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.887404446 +0200
> [greg@bahia ~]$ stat /var/tmp/virtio-fs/proc/fs
>   File: /var/tmp/virtio-fs/proc/fs
>   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   directory
> Device: 4h/4d   Inode: 4026531845  Links: 5
> Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Context: system_u:object_r:proc_t:s0
> Access: 2019-10-01 14:50:09.223233901 +0200
> Modify: 2019-10-01 14:50:09.223233901 +0200
> Change: 2019-10-01 14:50:09.223233901 +0200
>  Birth: -
> 
> In the guest:
> 
> [greg@localhost ~]$ stat /mnt
>   File: /mnt
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: 2dh/45d Inode: 787796      Links: 4
> Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/    greg)   Gid: ( 1000/    greg)
> Context: system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0
> Access: 2019-10-15 11:08:52.070080922 +0200
> Modify: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.887404446 +0200
> Change: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.887404446 +0200
>  Birth: -
> [greg@localhost ~]$ stat /mnt/FOO
>   File: /mnt/FOO
>   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty
> file Device: 2dh/45d Inode: 790740      Links: 1
> Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/    greg)   Gid: ( 1000/    greg)
> Context: system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0
> Access: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.888404448 +0200
> Modify: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.888404448 +0200
> Change: 2019-10-15 11:02:09.888404448 +0200
>  Birth: -
> [greg@localhost ~]$ stat /mnt/proc/fs
>   File: /mnt/proc/fs
>   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   directory
> Device: 2dh/45d Inode: 4026531845  Links: 5
> Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Context: system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0
> Access: 2019-10-01 14:50:09.223233901 +0200
> Modify: 2019-10-01 14:50:09.223233901 +0200
> Change: 2019-10-01 14:50:09.223233901 +0200
>  Birth: -
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, it seems that "virtio-fs" has the same
> issue we had on 9pfs before Christian's patches... :-\

Is a fix for this desired for virtio-fs?

Greg, did you have to update kernel version on either host or guest side to 
get virtio-fs running? Or were the discussed kernel changes just for optional 
acceleration purposes (i.e. DAX)?

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck





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