From: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com
commit a4527e1853f8ff6e0b7c2dadad6268bd38427a31 upstream.
When doing a direct IO read or write, we always return -ENOTBLK when we find a compressed extent (or an inline extent) so that we fallback to buffered IO. This however is not ideal in case we are in a NOWAIT context (io_uring for example), because buffered IO can block and we currently have no support for NOWAIT semantics for buffered IO, so if we need to fallback to buffered IO we should first signal the caller that we may need to block by returning -EAGAIN instead.
This behaviour can also result in short reads being returned to user space, which although it's not incorrect and user space should be able to deal with partial reads, it's somewhat surprising and even some popular applications like QEMU (Link tag #1) and MariaDB (Link tag #2) don't deal with short reads properly (or at all).
The short read case happens when we try to read from a range that has a non-compressed and non-inline extent followed by a compressed extent. After having read the first extent, when we find the compressed extent we return -ENOTBLK from btrfs_dio_iomap_begin(), which results in iomap to treat the request as a short read, returning 0 (success) and waiting for previously submitted bios to complete (this happens at fs/iomap/direct-io.c:__iomap_dio_rw()). After that, and while at btrfs_file_read_iter(), we call filemap_read() to use buffered IO to read the remaining data, and pass it the number of bytes we were able to read with direct IO. Than at filemap_read() if we get a page fault error when accessing the read buffer, we return a partial read instead of an -EFAULT error, because the number of bytes previously read is greater than zero.
So fix this by returning -EAGAIN for NOWAIT direct IO when we find a compressed or an inline extent.
Reported-by: Dominique MARTINET dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/YrrFGO4A1jS0GI0G@atmark-techno.com/ Link: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-27900?focusedCommentId=216582&page=... Tested-by: Dominique MARTINET dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+ Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -7957,7 +7957,19 @@ static int btrfs_dio_iomap_begin(struct if (test_bit(EXTENT_FLAG_COMPRESSED, &em->flags) || em->block_start == EXTENT_MAP_INLINE) { free_extent_map(em); - ret = -ENOTBLK; + /* + * If we are in a NOWAIT context, return -EAGAIN in order to + * fallback to buffered IO. This is not only because we can + * block with buffered IO (no support for NOWAIT semantics at + * the moment) but also to avoid returning short reads to user + * space - this happens if we were able to read some data from + * previous non-compressed extents and then when we fallback to + * buffered IO, at btrfs_file_read_iter() by calling + * filemap_read(), we fail to fault in pages for the read buffer, + * in which case filemap_read() returns a short read (the number + * of bytes previously read is > 0, so it does not return -EFAULT). + */ + ret = (flags & IOMAP_NOWAIT) ? -EAGAIN : -ENOTBLK; goto unlock_err; }