Re: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 10:43 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 30.04.2012 10:27, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> >> On 04/29/2012 01:54 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> >>>     However, a prettier solution exists now thanks to the packetized pipe
> >>>     mode.  By marking the communication pipe as being packetized (by simply
> >>>     setting the O_DIRECT flag), we can always just write the bigger packet
> >>>     size, and if user-space does a smaller read, it will just get that
> >>>     partial end result and the extra alignment padding will simply be thrown
> >>>     away.
> > 
> >> +static inline int autofs_prepare_pipe(struct file *pipe)
> >> +{
> >> +	if (!pipe->f_op || !pipe->f_op->write)
> >> +		return -EINVAL;
> >> +	if (!S_ISFIFO(pipe->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
> >> +		return -EINVAL;
> >> +	/* We want a packet pipe */
> >> +	pipe->f_flags |= O_DIRECT;
> >> +	return 0;
> >> +}
> >> +
> > 
> > @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd(st
> >  			err = -EBADF;
> >  			goto out;
> >  		}
> > -		if (!pipe->f_op || !pipe->f_op->write) {
> > +		if (autofs_prepare_pipe(pipe) < 0) {
> >  			err = -EPIPE;
> >  			fput(pipe);
> >  			goto out;
> > 
> > I've one more concern.  I'm not sure but I think there's some
> > risk still.  This packetizing gets applied to all VERSIONS of
> > the autofs PROTOCOL.  Which means it will be applied to the
> > lowest supported version (3) TOO, but did that version read
> > whole packets too?
> 
> I think this is a false alarm.  I checked autofs v3 and v4
> userspace code (found on  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs )
> and they both read whole packet at once, not piece-wise.
> 
> I didn't test if any of these actually work with any current
> kernel, however ;)

Yep, all the autofs releases use a sizeof() the relevant structure when
reading the kernel pipe, so that should be ok.

Ian