Merge tag 'fs.xattr.simple.rework.rbtree.rwlock.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping

Pull simple-xattr updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This ports the simple xattr infrastucture to rely on a simple rbtree
  protected by a read-write lock instead of a linked list protected by a
  spinlock.

  A while ago we received reports about scaling issues for filesystems
  using the simple xattr infrastructure that also support setting a
  larger number of xattrs. Specifically, cgroups and tmpfs.

  Both cgroupfs and tmpfs can be mounted by unprivileged users in
  unprivileged containers and root in an unprivileged container can set
  an unrestricted number of security.* xattrs and privileged users can
  also set unlimited trusted.* xattrs. A few more words on further that
  below. Other xattrs such as user.* are restricted for kernfs-based
  instances to a fairly limited number.

  As there are apparently users that have a fairly large number of
  xattrs we should scale a bit better. Using a simple linked list
  protected by a spinlock used for set, get, and list operations doesn't
  scale well if users use a lot of xattrs even if it's not a crazy
  number.

  Let's switch to a simple rbtree protected by a rwlock. It scales way
  better and gets rid of the perf issues some people reported. We
  originally had fancier solutions even using an rcu+seqlock protected
  rbtree but we had concerns about being to clever and also that
  deletion from an rbtree with rcu+seqlock isn't entirely safe.

  The rbtree plus rwlock is perfectly fine. By far the most common
  operation is getting an xattr. While setting an xattr is not and
  should be comparatively rare. And listxattr() often only happens when
  copying xattrs between files or together with the contents to a new
  file.

  Holding a lock across listxattr() is unproblematic because it doesn't
  list the values of xattrs. It can only be used to list the names of
  all xattrs set on a file. And the number of xattr names that can be
  listed with listxattr() is limited to XATTR_LIST_MAX aka 65536 bytes.
  If a larger buffer is passed then vfs_listxattr() caps it to
  XATTR_LIST_MAX and if more xattr names are found it will return
  -E2BIG. In short, the maximum amount of memory that can be retrieved
  via listxattr() is limited and thus listxattr() bounded.

  Of course, the API is broken as documented on xattr(7) already. While
  I have no idea how the xattr api ended up in this state we should
  probably try to come up with something here at some point. An iterator
  pattern similar to readdir() as an alternative to listxattr() or
  something else.

  Right now it is extremly strange that users can set millions of xattrs
  but then can't use listxattr() to know which xattrs are actually set.
  And it's really trivial to do:

	for i in {1..1000000}; do setfattr -n security.$i -v $i ./file1; done

  And around 5000 xattrs it's impossible to use listxattr() to figure
  out which xattrs are actually set. So I have suggested that we try to
  limit the number of xattrs for simple xattrs at least. But that's a
  future patch and I don't consider it very urgent.

  A bonus of this port to rbtree+rwlock is that we shrink the memory
  consumption for users of the simple xattr infrastructure.

  This also adds kernel documentation to all the functions"

* tag 'fs.xattr.simple.rework.rbtree.rwlock.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping:
  xattr: use rbtree for simple_xattrs

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index c45eaf04396e..202ec3156d04 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3283,7 +3283,7 @@ static int shmem_initxattrs(struct inode *inode,
 		memcpy(new_xattr->name + XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN,
 		       xattr->name, len);
 
-		simple_xattr_list_add(&info->xattrs, new_xattr);
+		simple_xattr_add(&info->xattrs, new_xattr);
 	}
 
 	return 0;