[PATCH] cifs: Fix collect_sample() to handle any iterator type

[PATCH] cifs: Fix collect_sample() to handle any iterator type

[David Howells]

collect_sample() is used to gather samples of the data in a Write op for
analysis to try and determine if the compression algorithm is likely to
achieve anything more quickly than actually running the compression
algorithm.

However, collect_sample() assumes that the data it is going to be sampling
is stored in an ITER_XARRAY-type iterator (which it now should never be)
and doesn't actually check that it is before accessing the underlying
xarray directly.

Fix this by replacing the code with a loop that just uses the standard
iterator functions to sample every other 2KiB block, skipping the
intervening ones.  It's not quite the same as the previous algorithm as it
doesn't necessarily align to the pages within an ordinary write from the
pagecache.

Note that the btrfs code from which this was derived samples the inode's
pagecache directly rather than the iterator - but that doesn't necessarily
work for network filesystems if O_DIRECT is in operation.

Fixes: 94ae8c3fee94 ("smb: client: compress: LZ77 code improvements cleanup")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
cc: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/smb/client/compress.c |   71 +++++++++++++----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/compress.c b/fs/smb/client/compress.c
index 766b4de13da7..db709f5cd2e1 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/compress.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/compress.c
@@ -155,58 +155,29 @@ static int cmp_bkt(const void *_a, const void *_b)
 }
 
 /*
- * TODO:
- * Support other iter types, if required.
- * Only ITER_XARRAY is supported for now.
+ * Collect some 2K samples with 2K gaps between.
  */
-static int collect_sample(const struct iov_iter *iter, ssize_t max, u8 *sample)
+static int collect_sample(const struct iov_iter *source, ssize_t max, u8 *sample)
 {
-	struct folio *folios[16], *folio;
-	unsigned int nr, i, j, npages;
-	loff_t start = iter->xarray_start + iter->iov_offset;
-	pgoff_t last, index = start / PAGE_SIZE;
-	size_t len, off, foff;
-	void *p;
-	int s = 0;
-
-	last = (start + max - 1) / PAGE_SIZE;
-	do {
-		nr = xa_extract(iter->xarray, (void **)folios, index, last, ARRAY_SIZE(folios),
-				XA_PRESENT);
-		if (nr == 0)
-			return -EIO;
-
-		for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
-			folio = folios[i];
-			npages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
-			foff = start - folio_pos(folio);
-			off = foff % PAGE_SIZE;
-
-			for (j = foff / PAGE_SIZE; j < npages; j++) {
-				size_t len2;
-
-				len = min_t(size_t, max, PAGE_SIZE - off);
-				len2 = min_t(size_t, len, SZ_2K);
-
-				p = kmap_local_page(folio_page(folio, j));
-				memcpy(&sample[s], p, len2);
-				kunmap_local(p);
-
-				s += len2;
-
-				if (len2 < SZ_2K || s >= max - SZ_2K)
-					return s;
-
-				max -= len;
-				if (max <= 0)
-					return s;
-
-				start += len;
-				off = 0;
-				index++;
-			}
-		}
-	} while (nr == ARRAY_SIZE(folios));
+	struct iov_iter iter = *source;
+	size_t s = 0;
+
+	while (iov_iter_count(&iter) >= SZ_2K) {
+		size_t part = umin(umin(iov_iter_count(&iter), SZ_2K), max);
+		size_t n;
+
+		n = copy_from_iter(sample + s, part, &iter);
+		if (n != part)
+			return -EFAULT;
+
+		s += n;
+		max -= n;
+
+		if (iov_iter_count(&iter) < PAGE_SIZE - SZ_2K)
+			break;
+
+		iov_iter_advance(&iter, SZ_2K);
+	}
 
 	return s;
 }

Re: [PATCH] cifs: Fix collect_sample() to handle any iterator type

[Paulo Alcantara]

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:

> collect_sample() is used to gather samples of the data in a Write op for
> analysis to try and determine if the compression algorithm is likely to
> achieve anything more quickly than actually running the compression
> algorithm.
>
> However, collect_sample() assumes that the data it is going to be sampling
> is stored in an ITER_XARRAY-type iterator (which it now should never be)
> and doesn't actually check that it is before accessing the underlying
> xarray directly.
>
> Fix this by replacing the code with a loop that just uses the standard
> iterator functions to sample every other 2KiB block, skipping the
> intervening ones.  It's not quite the same as the previous algorithm as it
> doesn't necessarily align to the pages within an ordinary write from the
> pagecache.
>
> Note that the btrfs code from which this was derived samples the inode's
> pagecache directly rather than the iterator - but that doesn't necessarily
> work for network filesystems if O_DIRECT is in operation.
>
> Fixes: 94ae8c3fee94 ("smb: client: compress: LZ77 code improvements cleanup")
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
> cc: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>
> cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
> cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
> cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
> cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  fs/smb/client/compress.c |   71 +++++++++++++----------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org>