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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] dm verity: don't verity if readahead failed
To:     Wu Bo <bo.wu@vivo.com>, Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
        Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
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        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org
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From:   Wu Bo <wubo.oduw@gmail.com>
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ping.

On 2023/11/22 11:51, Wu Bo wrote:
> We found an issue under Android OTA scenario that many BIOs have to do
> FEC where the data under dm-verity is 100% complete and no corruption.
>
> Android OTA has many dm-block layers, from upper to lower:
> dm-verity
> dm-snapshot
> dm-origin & dm-cow
> dm-linear
> ufs
>
> Dm tables have to change 2 times during Android OTA merging process.
> When doing table change, the dm-snapshot will be suspended for a while.
> During this interval, we found there are many readahead IOs are
> submitted to dm_verity from filesystem. Then the kverity works are busy
> doing FEC process which cost too much time to finish dm-verity IO. And
> cause system stuck.
>
> We add some debug log and find that each readahead IO need around 10s to
> finish when this situation occurred. Because here has a IO
> amplification:
>
> dm-snapshot suspend
> erofs_readahead     // 300+ io is submitted
> 	dm_submit_bio (dm_verity)
> 		dm_submit_bio (dm_snapshot)
> 		bio return EIO
> 		bio got nothing, it's empty
> 	verity_end_io
> 	verity_verify_io
> 	forloop range(0, io->n_blocks)    // each io->nblocks ~= 20
> 		verity_fec_decode
> 		fec_decode_rsb
> 		fec_read_bufs
> 		forloop range(0, v->fec->rsn) // v->fec->rsn = 253
> 			new_read
> 			submit_bio (dm_snapshot)
> 		end loop
> 	end loop
> dm-snapshot resume
>
> Readahead BIO got nothing during dm-snapshot suspended. So all of them
> will do FEC.
> Each readahead BIO need to do io->n_blocks ~= 20 times verify.
> Each block need to do fec, and every block need to do v->fec->rsn = 253
> times read.
> So during the suspend interval(~200ms), 300 readahead BIO make
> 300*20*253 IOs on dm-snapshot.
>
> As readahead IO is not required by user space, and to fix this issue,
> I think it would be better to pass it to upper layer to handle it.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: a739ff3f543a ("dm verity: add support for forward error correction")
> Signed-off-by: Wu Bo <bo.wu@vivo.com>
> ---
>   drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> index beec14b6b044..14e58ae70521 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> @@ -667,7 +667,9 @@ static void verity_end_io(struct bio *bio)
>   	struct dm_verity_io *io = bio->bi_private;
>   
>   	if (bio->bi_status &&
> -	    (!verity_fec_is_enabled(io->v) || verity_is_system_shutting_down())) {
> +	    (!verity_fec_is_enabled(io->v) ||
> +	     verity_is_system_shutting_down() ||
> +	     (bio->bi_opf & REQ_RAHEAD))) {
>   		verity_finish_io(io, bio->bi_status);
>   		return;
>   	}