[PATCH v4] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies

Luis Henriques
2021-02-18T17:07:30Z

A regression has been reported by Nicolas Boichat, found while using the
copy_file_range syscall to copy a tracefs file. Before commit
5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices") the
kernel would return -EXDEV to userspace when trying to copy a file across
different filesystems. After this commit, the syscall doesn't fail anymore
and instead returns zero (zero bytes copied), as this file's content is
generated on-the-fly and thus reports a size of zero.

This patch restores some cross-filesystem copy restrictions that existed
prior to commit 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across
devices"). Filesystems are still allowed to fall-back to the VFS
generic_copy_file_range() implementation, but that has now to be done
explicitly.

nfsd is also modified to use generic_copy_file_range() instead of
vfs_copy_file_range() so that it can still fall-back to splice without going
through all the checks.

Fixes: 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210212044405.4120619-1-drinkcat@chromium.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CANMq1KDZuxir2LM5jOTm0xx+BnvW=ZmpsG47CyHFJwnw7zSX6Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210126135012.1.If45b7cdc3ff707bc1efa17f5366057d60603c45f@changeid/
Reported-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
---
And here's v4. I'd like to request help for testing. I know Nicolas is
doing that (thanks! and thanks for the reviews). But it would be great to
get at least the nfs code tested. Olga, can you help here?

Changes since v3
- dropped the COPY_FILE_SPLICE flag
- kept the f_op's checks early in generic_copy_file_checks, implementing
Amir's suggestions
- modified nfsd to use generic_copy_file_range()
Changes since v2
- do all the required checks earlier, in generic_copy_file_checks(),
adding new checks for ->remap_file_range
- new COPY_FILE_SPLICE flag
- don't remove filesystem's fallback to generic_copy_file_range()
- updated commit changelog (and subject)
Changes since v1 (after Amir review)
- restored do_copy_file_range() helper
- return -EOPNOTSUPP if fs doesn't implement CFR
- updated commit description

fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 2 +-
fs/read_write.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 04937e51de56..49dd28ee2602 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ ssize_t nfsd_copy_file_range(struct file *src, u64 src_pos, struct file *dst,
* limit like this and pipeline multiple COPY requests.
*/
count = min_t(u64, count, 1 << 22);
- return vfs_copy_file_range(src, src_pos, dst, dst_pos, count, 0);
+ return generic_copy_file_range(src, src_pos, dst, dst_pos, count, 0);
}

__be32 nfsd4_vfs_fallocate(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 75f764b43418..214d44f7cbfa 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -1388,28 +1388,6 @@ ssize_t generic_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_copy_file_range);

-static ssize_t do_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
- struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out,
- size_t len, unsigned int flags)
-{
- /*
- * Although we now allow filesystems to handle cross sb copy, passing
- * a file of the wrong filesystem type to filesystem driver can result
- * in an attempt to dereference the wrong type of ->private_data, so
- * avoid doing that until we really have a good reason. NFS defines
- * several different file_system_type structures, but they all end up
- * using the same ->copy_file_range() function pointer.
- */
- if (file_out->f_op->copy_file_range &&
- file_out->f_op->copy_file_range == file_in->f_op->copy_file_range)
- return file_out->f_op->copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in,
- file_out, pos_out,
- len, flags);
-
- return generic_copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out, len,
- flags);
-}
-
/*
* Performs necessary checks before doing a file copy
*
@@ -1427,6 +1405,25 @@ static int generic_copy_file_checks(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
loff_t size_in;
int ret;

+ /*
+ * Although we now allow filesystems to handle cross sb copy, passing
+ * a file of the wrong filesystem type to filesystem driver can result
+ * in an attempt to dereference the wrong type of ->private_data, so
+ * avoid doing that until we really have a good reason. NFS defines
+ * several different file_system_type structures, but they all end up
+ * using the same ->copy_file_range() function pointer.
+ */
+ if (file_out->f_op->copy_file_range) {
+ if (file_in->f_op->copy_file_range !=
+ file_out->f_op->copy_file_range)
+ return -EXDEV;
+ } else if (file_in->f_op->remap_file_range) {
+ if (file_inode(file_in)->i_sb != file_inode(file_out)->i_sb)
+ return -EXDEV;
+ } else {
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+
ret = generic_file_rw_checks(file_in, file_out);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -1499,8 +1496,7 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
* Try cloning first, this is supported by more file systems, and
* more efficient if both clone and copy are supported (e.g. NFS).
*/
- if (file_in->f_op->remap_file_range &&
- file_inode(file_in)->i_sb == file_inode(file_out)->i_sb) {
+ if (file_in->f_op->remap_file_range) {
loff_t cloned;

cloned = file_in->f_op->remap_file_range(file_in, pos_in,
@@ -1513,9 +1509,9 @@ ssize_t vfs_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
}
}

- ret = do_copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out, len,
- flags);
- WARN_ON_ONCE(ret == -EOPNOTSUPP);
+ ret = file_out->f_op->copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in,
+ file_out, pos_out,
+ len, flags);
done:
if (ret > 0) {
fsnotify_access(file_in);