From: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
To: Liu Kui <kui.liu@virtuozzo.com>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@virtuozzo.com>,
Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: OpenVZ devel list <devel@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH vz10 v2] fuse: reject FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_FILES for non-regular inodes
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:49:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9d69682-a402-4ae3-b4c7-4771a045e07f@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260819160529.490608-1-khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
a kind ping
--
Best regards,
Konstantin Khorenko,
Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team
On 8/19/26 18:05, Konstantin Khorenko wrote:
> FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_FILES invalidates the read/write io state of an inode,
> which only regular files have. The notification carries a nodeid, and
> the actual work is deferred to a workqueue:
>
> fuse_dev_do_write()
> fuse_notify()
> fuse_notify_inval_files()
> fuse_invalidate_files() inode = fuse_ilookup(fc, nodeid)
> queue_delayed_work(fuse_inval_files_wq, &fc->inval_files_work)
> ...
> fuse_inval_files_work() worker context
> wake_up(&fi->page_waitq) regular file state
>
> What the bytes behind fi->page_waitq are depends on the inode type, see
> fuse_init_inode():
>
> S_ISREG fuse_init_file_inode() init_waitqueue_head(&fi->page_waitq)
> S_ISDIR fuse_init_dir() the same union holds fi->rdc, the
> readdir cache (rdc.lock, rdc.version,
> rdc.mtime, ...)
> other - nothing, fuse_alloc_inode() leaves
> the union as allocated
>
> So for a nodeid which is not a regular file - the mount root, say - the
> worker calls wake_up() on storage that is not a waitqueue and walks
> whatever lies there as a waitqueue list: a GPF in the worker, or a lockup
> on a bogus lock, depending on what the overlapping fields happen to hold.
>
> vstorage never sends the notification for anything but a regular file,
> but nothing in the protocol or in the kernel makes that a rule: the
> message carries a bare nodeid, and every nodeid the server has handed
> out is a candidate, FUSE_ROOT_ID included - the mount root is always a
> directory and always in the inode cache. That is how it was found: a
> selftest driving /dev/fuse by hand picked FUSE_ROOT_ID as the one nodeid
> guaranteed to exist without a preceding LOOKUP, and the notification for
> it crashed the kernel. A fuse server can be started by an unprivileged
> user, so this is reachable without any privileges.
>
> Fixes: eab013c7511c ("fuse: skip waiting for fuse writeback")
> Feature: vStorage
> https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-137234
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> - reject the notification in fuse_invalidate_files() instead of merely
> skipping the wake_up() in fuse_inval_files_work(): a non-regular inode
> is not a valid target for FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_FILES at all, so fail it
> with -EOPNOTSUPP (dropping the reference taken by fuse_ilookup())
> - shrink the code comment down to why fi->page_waitq must not be touched
> for non-regular inodes, the struct fuse_inode layout details are
> implementation specific and moved to the commit message
> - reword the commit message: spell out the call path, which inode type
> initialises what, and how a non-regular nodeid reaches the worker
>
> fs/fuse/inode.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
> index ea158367a1efd..3ca447cb3b6eb 100644
> --- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
> @@ -667,6 +667,16 @@ int fuse_invalidate_files(struct fuse_dev *fud, u64 nodeid)
> if (!inode)
> return -ENOENT;
>
> + /*
> + * fuse_inval_files_work() wakes fi->page_waitq, which is initialised
> + * for regular files only - for other inode types it is not a
> + * waitqueue at all.
> + */
> + if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
> + iput(inode);
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> + }
> +
> fi = get_fuse_inode(inode);
>
> /*
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