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posix_fallocate: Emulation fixes and documentation [BZ #15661]

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Handle signed integer overflow correctly.  Detect and reject O_APPEND.
Document drawbacks of emulation.

This does not completely address bug 15661, but improves the situation
somewhat.
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2015-06-05 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
[BZ #15661]
* sysdeps/posix/posix_fallocate64.c (__posix_fallocate64_l64):
Check for overflow properly. Check for O_APPEND. Ignore large
file system block sizes. Add comments about problems.
* sysdeps/posix/posix_fallocate.c (posix_fallocate): Likewise.
* manual/filesys.texi (Storage Allocation): New node.
2015-06-04 Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
* sysdeps/unix/sysdep.h [SYSCALL_CANCEL]: New macro: define

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@ -1723,6 +1723,7 @@ modify the attributes of a file.
access a file.
* File Times:: About the time attributes of a file.
* File Size:: Manually changing the size of a file.
* Storage Allocation:: Allocate backing storage for files.
@end menu
@node Attribute Meanings
@ -3233,6 +3234,99 @@ is a requirement of @code{mmap}. The program has to keep track of the
real size, and when it has finished a final @code{ftruncate} call should
set the real size of the file.
@node Storage Allocation
@subsection Storage Allocation
@cindex allocating file storage
@cindex file allocation
@cindex storage allocating
@cindex file fragmentation
@cindex fragmentation of files
@cindex sparse files
@cindex files, sparse
Most file systems support allocating large files in a non-contiguous
fashion: the file is split into @emph{fragments} which are allocated
sequentially, but the fragments themselves can be scattered across the
disk. File systems generally try to avoid such fragmentation because it
decreases performance, but if a file gradually increases in size, there
might be no other option than to fragment it. In addition, many file
systems support @emph{sparse files} with @emph{holes}: regions of null
bytes for which no backing storage has been allocated by the file
system. When the holes are finally overwritten with data, fragmentation
can occur as well.
Explicit allocation of storage for yet-unwritten parts of the file can
help the system to avoid fragmentation. Additionally, if storage
pre-allocation fails, it is possible to report the out-of-disk error
early, often without filling up the entire disk. However, due to
deduplication, copy-on-write semantics, and file compression, such
pre-allocation may not reliably prevent the out-of-disk-space error from
occurring later. Checking for write errors is still required, and
writes to memory-mapped regions created with @code{mmap} can still
result in @code{SIGBUS}.
@deftypefun int posix_fallocate (int @var{fd}, off_t @var{offset}, off_t @var{length})
@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
@c If the file system does not support allocation,
@c @code{posix_fallocate} has a race with file extension (if
@c @var{length} is zero) or with concurrent writes of non-NUL bytes (if
@c @var{length} is positive).
Allocate backing store for the region of @var{length} bytes starting at
byte @var{offset} in the file for the descriptor @var{fd}. The file
length is increased to @samp{@var{length} + @var{offset}} if necessary.
@var{fd} must be a regular file opened for writing, or @code{EBADF} is
returned. If there is insufficient disk space to fulfill the allocation
request, @code{ENOSPC} is returned.
@strong{Note:} If @code{fallocate} is not available (because the file
system does not support it), @code{posix_fallocate} is emulated, which
has the following drawbacks:
@itemize @bullet
@item
It is very inefficient because all file system blocks in the requested
range need to be examined (even if they have been allocated before) and
potentially rewritten. In contrast, with proper @code{fallocate}
support (see below), the file system can examine the internal file
allocation data structures and eliminate holes directly, maybe even
using unwritten extents (which are pre-allocated but uninitialized on
disk).
@item
There is a race condition if another thread or process modifies the
underlying file in the to-be-allocated area. Non-null bytes could be
overwritten with null bytes.
@item
If @var{fd} has been opened with the @code{O_APPEND} flag, the function
will fail with an @code{errno} value of @code{EBADF}.
@item
If @var{length} is zero, @code{ftruncate} is used to increase the file
size as requested, without allocating file system blocks. There is a
race condition which means that @code{ftruncate} can accidentally
truncate the file if it has been extended concurrently.
@end itemize
On Linux, if an application does not benefit from emulation or if the
emulation is harmful due to its inherent race conditions, the
application can use the Linux-specific @code{fallocate} function, with a
zero flag argument. For the @code{fallocate} function, @theglibc{} does
not perform allocation emulation if the file system does not support
allocation. Instead, an @code{EOPNOTSUPP} is returned to the caller.
@end deftypefun
@deftypefun int posix_fallocate64 (int @var{fd}, off64_t @var{length}, off64_t @var{offset})
@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
This function is a variant of @code{posix_fallocate64} which accepts
64-bit file offsets on all platforms.
@end deftypefun
@node Making Special Files
@section Making Special Files
@cindex creating special files

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#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/statfs.h>
/* Reserve storage for the data of the file associated with FD. */
/* Reserve storage for the data of the file associated with FD. This
emulation is far from perfect, but the kernel cannot do not much
better for network file systems, either. */
int
posix_fallocate (int fd, __off_t offset, __off_t len)
{
struct stat64 st;
struct statfs f;
/* `off_t' is a signed type. Therefore we can determine whether
OFFSET + LEN is too large if it is a negative value. */
if (offset < 0 || len < 0)
return EINVAL;
if (offset + len < 0)
/* Perform overflow check. The outer cast relies on a GCC
extension. */
if ((__off_t) ((uint64_t) offset) + ((uint64_t) len) < 0)
return EFBIG;
/* First thing we have to make sure is that this is really a regular
file. */
/* pwrite below will not do the right thing in O_APPEND mode. */
{
int flags = __fcntl (fd, F_GETFL, 0);
if (flags < 0 || (flags & O_APPEND) != 0)
return EBADF;
}
/* We have to make sure that this is really a regular file. */
if (__fxstat64 (_STAT_VER, fd, &st) != 0)
return EBADF;
if (S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode))
@ -47,6 +57,8 @@ posix_fallocate (int fd, __off_t offset, __off_t len)
if (len == 0)
{
/* This is racy, but there is no good way to satisfy a
zero-length allocation request. */
if (st.st_size < offset)
{
int ret = __ftruncate (fd, offset);
@ -58,19 +70,36 @@ posix_fallocate (int fd, __off_t offset, __off_t len)
return 0;
}
/* We have to know the block size of the filesystem to get at least some
sort of performance. */
if (__fstatfs (fd, &f) != 0)
return errno;
/* Minimize data transfer for network file systems, by issuing
single-byte write requests spaced by the file system block size.
(Most local file systems have fallocate support, so this fallback
code is not used there.) */
/* Try to play safe. */
if (f.f_bsize == 0)
f.f_bsize = 512;
unsigned increment;
{
struct statfs64 f;
/* Write something to every block. */
for (offset += (len - 1) % f.f_bsize; len > 0; offset += f.f_bsize)
if (__fstatfs64 (fd, &f) != 0)
return errno;
if (f.f_bsize == 0)
increment = 512;
else if (f.f_bsize < 4096)
increment = f.f_bsize;
else
/* NFS does not propagate the block size of the underlying
storage and may report a much larger value which would still
leave holes after the loop below, so we cap the increment at
4096. */
increment = 4096;
}
/* Write a null byte to every block. This is racy; we currently
lack a better option. Compare-and-swap against a file mapping
might additional local races, but requires interposition of a
signal handler to catch SIGBUS. */
for (offset += (len - 1) % increment; len > 0; offset += increment)
{
len -= f.f_bsize;
len -= increment;
if (offset < st.st_size)
{

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@ -18,26 +18,36 @@
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/statfs.h>
/* Reserve storage for the data of the file associated with FD. */
/* Reserve storage for the data of the file associated with FD. This
emulation is far from perfect, but the kernel cannot do not much
better for network file systems, either. */
int
__posix_fallocate64_l64 (int fd, __off64_t offset, __off64_t len)
{
struct stat64 st;
struct statfs64 f;
/* `off64_t' is a signed type. Therefore we can determine whether
OFFSET + LEN is too large if it is a negative value. */
if (offset < 0 || len < 0)
return EINVAL;
if (offset + len < 0)
/* Perform overflow check. The outer cast relies on a GCC
extension. */
if ((__off64_t) ((uint64_t) offset) + ((uint64_t) len) < 0)
return EFBIG;
/* First thing we have to make sure is that this is really a regular
file. */
/* pwrite64 below will not do the right thing in O_APPEND mode. */
{
int flags = __fcntl (fd, F_GETFL, 0);
if (flags < 0 || (flags & O_APPEND) != 0)
return EBADF;
}
/* We have to make sure that this is really a regular file. */
if (__fxstat64 (_STAT_VER, fd, &st) != 0)
return EBADF;
if (S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode))
@ -47,6 +57,8 @@ __posix_fallocate64_l64 (int fd, __off64_t offset, __off64_t len)
if (len == 0)
{
/* This is racy, but there is no good way to satisfy a
zero-length allocation request. */
if (st.st_size < offset)
{
int ret = __ftruncate64 (fd, offset);
@ -58,19 +70,36 @@ __posix_fallocate64_l64 (int fd, __off64_t offset, __off64_t len)
return 0;
}
/* We have to know the block size of the filesystem to get at least some
sort of performance. */
if (__fstatfs64 (fd, &f) != 0)
return errno;
/* Minimize data transfer for network file systems, by issuing
single-byte write requests spaced by the file system block size.
(Most local file systems have fallocate support, so this fallback
code is not used there.) */
/* Try to play safe. */
if (f.f_bsize == 0)
f.f_bsize = 512;
unsigned increment;
{
struct statfs64 f;
/* Write something to every block. */
for (offset += (len - 1) % f.f_bsize; len > 0; offset += f.f_bsize)
if (__fstatfs64 (fd, &f) != 0)
return errno;
if (f.f_bsize == 0)
increment = 512;
else if (f.f_bsize < 4096)
increment = f.f_bsize;
else
/* NFS clients do not propagate the block size of the underlying
storage and may report a much larger value which would still
leave holes after the loop below, so we cap the increment at
4096. */
increment = 4096;
}
/* Write a null byte to every block. This is racy; we currently
lack a better option. Compare-and-swap against a file mapping
might address local races, but requires interposition of a signal
handler to catch SIGBUS. */
for (offset += (len - 1) % increment; len > 0; offset += increment)
{
len -= f.f_bsize;
len -= increment;
if (offset < st.st_size)
{