Re: [PATCH 02/12] nilfs2: use setup_bdev_super to de-duplicate the mount code

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Fri 04-08-23 11:01:39, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 8:46 PM Jan Kara wrote:
> >
> > On Wed 02-08-23 17:41:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Use the generic setup_bdev_super helper to open the main block device
> > > and do various bits of superblock setup instead of duplicating the
> > > logic.  This includes moving to the new scheme implemented in common
> > > code that only opens the block device after the superblock has allocated.
> > >
> > > It does not yet convert nilfs2 to the new mount API, but doing so will
> > > become a bit simpler after this first step.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> >
> > AFAICS nilfs2 could *almost* use mount_bdev() directly and then just do its
> 
> > snapshot thing after mount_bdev() returns. But it has this weird logic
> > that: "if the superblock is already mounted but we can shrink the whole
> > dcache, then do remount instead of ignoring mount options". Firstly, this
> > looks racy - what prevents someone from say opening a file on the sb just
> > after nilfs_tree_is_busy() shrinks dcache? Secondly, it is inconsistent
> > with any other filesystem so it's going to surprise sysadmins not
> > intimately knowing nilfs2. Thirdly, from userspace you cannot tell what
> > your mount call is going to do. Last but not least, what is it really good
> > for? Ryusuke, can you explain please?
> >
> >                                                                 Honza
> 
> I think you are referring to the following part:
> 
> >        if (!s->s_root) {
> ...
> >        } else if (!sd.cno) {
> >                if (nilfs_tree_is_busy(s->s_root)) {
> >                        if ((flags ^ s->s_flags) & SB_RDONLY) {
> >                                nilfs_err(s,
> >                                          "the device already has a %s mount.",
> >                                          sb_rdonly(s) ? "read-only" : "read/write");
> >                                err = -EBUSY;
> >                                goto failed_super;
> >                        }
> >                } else {
> >                        /*
> >                         * Try remount to setup mount states if the current
> >                         * tree is not mounted and only snapshots use this sb.
> >                         */
> >                        err = nilfs_remount(s, &flags, data);
> >                        if (err)
> >                                goto failed_super;
> >                }
> >        }
> 
> What this logic is trying to do is, if there is already a nilfs2 mount
> instance for the device, and are trying to mounting the current tree
> (sd.cno is 0, so this is not a snapshot mount), then will switch
> depending on whether the current tree has a mount:
> 
> - If the current tree is mounted, it's just like a normal filesystem.
> (A read-only mount and a read/write mount can't coexist, so check
> that, and reuse the instance if possible)
> - Otherwise, i.e. for snapshot mounts only, do whatever is necessary
> to add a new current mount, such as starting a log writer.
>    Since it does the same thing that nilfs_remount does, so
> nilfs_remount() is used there.
> 
> Whether or not there is a current tree mount can be determined by
> d_count(s->s_root) > 1 as nilfs_tree_is_busy() does.
> Where s->s_root is always the root dentry of the current tree, not
> that of the mounted snapshot.

I see now, thanks for explanation! But one thing still is not clear to me.
If you say have a snapshot mounted read-write and then you mount the
current snapshot (cno == 0) read-only, you'll switch the whole superblock
to read-only state. So also the mounted snapshot is suddently read-only
which is unexpected and actually supposedly breaks things because you can
still have file handles open for writing on the snapshot etc.. So how do
you solve that?

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR