linux/include/linux/iversion.h
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   1/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
   2#ifndef _LINUX_IVERSION_H
   3#define _LINUX_IVERSION_H
   4
   5#include <linux/fs.h>
   6
   7/*
   8 * The inode->i_version field:
   9 * ---------------------------
  10 * The change attribute (i_version) is mandated by NFSv4 and is mostly for
  11 * knfsd, but is also used for other purposes (e.g. IMA). The i_version must
  12 * appear different to observers if there was a change to the inode's data or
  13 * metadata since it was last queried.
  14 *
  15 * Observers see the i_version as a 64-bit number that never decreases. If it
  16 * remains the same since it was last checked, then nothing has changed in the
  17 * inode. If it's different then something has changed. Observers cannot infer
  18 * anything about the nature or magnitude of the changes from the value, only
  19 * that the inode has changed in some fashion.
  20 *
  21 * Not all filesystems properly implement the i_version counter. Subsystems that
  22 * want to use i_version field on an inode should first check whether the
  23 * filesystem sets the SB_I_VERSION flag (usually via the IS_I_VERSION macro).
  24 *
  25 * Those that set SB_I_VERSION will automatically have their i_version counter
  26 * incremented on writes to normal files. If the SB_I_VERSION is not set, then
  27 * the VFS will not touch it on writes, and the filesystem can use it how it
  28 * wishes. Note that the filesystem is always responsible for updating the
  29 * i_version on namespace changes in directories (mkdir, rmdir, unlink, etc.).
  30 * We consider these sorts of filesystems to have a kernel-managed i_version.
  31 *
  32 * It may be impractical for filesystems to keep i_version updates atomic with
  33 * respect to the changes that cause them.  They should, however, guarantee
  34 * that i_version updates are never visible before the changes that caused
  35 * them.  Also, i_version updates should never be delayed longer than it takes
  36 * the original change to reach disk.
  37 *
  38 * This implementation uses the low bit in the i_version field as a flag to
  39 * track when the value has been queried. If it has not been queried since it
  40 * was last incremented, we can skip the increment in most cases.
  41 *
  42 * In the event that we're updating the ctime, we will usually go ahead and
  43 * bump the i_version anyway. Since that has to go to stable storage in some
  44 * fashion, we might as well increment it as well.
  45 *
  46 * With this implementation, the value should always appear to observers to
  47 * increase over time if the file has changed. It's recommended to use
  48 * inode_eq_iversion() helper to compare values.
  49 *
  50 * Note that some filesystems (e.g. NFS and AFS) just use the field to store
  51 * a server-provided value (for the most part). For that reason, those
  52 * filesystems do not set SB_I_VERSION. These filesystems are considered to
  53 * have a self-managed i_version.
  54 *
  55 * Persistently storing the i_version
  56 * ----------------------------------
  57 * Queries of the i_version field are not gated on them hitting the backing
  58 * store. It's always possible that the host could crash after allowing
  59 * a query of the value but before it has made it to disk.
  60 *
  61 * To mitigate this problem, filesystems should always use
  62 * inode_set_iversion_queried when loading an existing inode from disk. This
  63 * ensures that the next attempted inode increment will result in the value
  64 * changing.
  65 *
  66 * Storing the value to disk therefore does not count as a query, so those
  67 * filesystems should use inode_peek_iversion to grab the value to be stored.
  68 * There is no need to flag the value as having been queried in that case.
  69 */
  70
  71/*
  72 * We borrow the lowest bit in the i_version to use as a flag to tell whether
  73 * it has been queried since we last incremented it. If it has, then we must
  74 * increment it on the next change. After that, we can clear the flag and
  75 * avoid incrementing it again until it has again been queried.
  76 */
  77#define I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT (1)
  78#define I_VERSION_QUERIED       (1ULL << (I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT - 1))
  79#define I_VERSION_INCREMENT     (1ULL << I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT)
  80
  81/**
  82 * inode_set_iversion_raw - set i_version to the specified raw value
  83 * @inode: inode to set
  84 * @val: new i_version value to set
  85 *
  86 * Set @inode's i_version field to @val. This function is for use by
  87 * filesystems that self-manage the i_version.
  88 *
  89 * For example, the NFS client stores its NFSv4 change attribute in this way,
  90 * and the AFS client stores the data_version from the server here.
  91 */
  92static inline void
  93inode_set_iversion_raw(struct inode *inode, u64 val)
  94{
  95        atomic64_set(&inode->i_version, val);
  96}
  97
  98/**
  99 * inode_peek_iversion_raw - grab a "raw" iversion value
 100 * @inode: inode from which i_version should be read
 101 *
 102 * Grab a "raw" inode->i_version value and return it. The i_version is not
 103 * flagged or converted in any way. This is mostly used to access a self-managed
 104 * i_version.
 105 *
 106 * With those filesystems, we want to treat the i_version as an entirely
 107 * opaque value.
 108 */
 109static inline u64
 110inode_peek_iversion_raw(const struct inode *inode)
 111{
 112        return atomic64_read(&inode->i_version);
 113}
 114
 115/**
 116 * inode_set_iversion - set i_version to a particular value
 117 * @inode: inode to set
 118 * @val: new i_version value to set
 119 *
 120 * Set @inode's i_version field to @val. This function is for filesystems with
 121 * a kernel-managed i_version, for initializing a newly-created inode from
 122 * scratch.
 123 *
 124 * In this case, we do not set the QUERIED flag since we know that this value
 125 * has never been queried.
 126 */
 127static inline void
 128inode_set_iversion(struct inode *inode, u64 val)
 129{
 130        inode_set_iversion_raw(inode, val << I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT);
 131}
 132
 133/**
 134 * inode_set_iversion_queried - set i_version to a particular value as quereied
 135 * @inode: inode to set
 136 * @val: new i_version value to set
 137 *
 138 * Set @inode's i_version field to @val, and flag it for increment on the next
 139 * change.
 140 *
 141 * Filesystems that persistently store the i_version on disk should use this
 142 * when loading an existing inode from disk.
 143 *
 144 * When loading in an i_version value from a backing store, we can't be certain
 145 * that it wasn't previously viewed before being stored. Thus, we must assume
 146 * that it was, to ensure that we don't end up handing out the same value for
 147 * different versions of the same inode.
 148 */
 149static inline void
 150inode_set_iversion_queried(struct inode *inode, u64 val)
 151{
 152        inode_set_iversion_raw(inode, (val << I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT) |
 153                                I_VERSION_QUERIED);
 154}
 155
 156/**
 157 * inode_maybe_inc_iversion - increments i_version
 158 * @inode: inode with the i_version that should be updated
 159 * @force: increment the counter even if it's not necessary?
 160 *
 161 * Every time the inode is modified, the i_version field must be seen to have
 162 * changed by any observer.
 163 *
 164 * If "force" is set or the QUERIED flag is set, then ensure that we increment
 165 * the value, and clear the queried flag.
 166 *
 167 * In the common case where neither is set, then we can return "false" without
 168 * updating i_version.
 169 *
 170 * If this function returns false, and no other metadata has changed, then we
 171 * can avoid logging the metadata.
 172 */
 173static inline bool
 174inode_maybe_inc_iversion(struct inode *inode, bool force)
 175{
 176        u64 cur, old, new;
 177
 178        /*
 179         * The i_version field is not strictly ordered with any other inode
 180         * information, but the legacy inode_inc_iversion code used a spinlock
 181         * to serialize increments.
 182         *
 183         * Here, we add full memory barriers to ensure that any de-facto
 184         * ordering with other info is preserved.
 185         *
 186         * This barrier pairs with the barrier in inode_query_iversion()
 187         */
 188        smp_mb();
 189        cur = inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode);
 190        for (;;) {
 191                /* If flag is clear then we needn't do anything */
 192                if (!force && !(cur & I_VERSION_QUERIED))
 193                        return false;
 194
 195                /* Since lowest bit is flag, add 2 to avoid it */
 196                new = (cur & ~I_VERSION_QUERIED) + I_VERSION_INCREMENT;
 197
 198                old = atomic64_cmpxchg(&inode->i_version, cur, new);
 199                if (likely(old == cur))
 200                        break;
 201                cur = old;
 202        }
 203        return true;
 204}
 205
 206
 207/**
 208 * inode_inc_iversion - forcibly increment i_version
 209 * @inode: inode that needs to be updated
 210 *
 211 * Forcbily increment the i_version field. This always results in a change to
 212 * the observable value.
 213 */
 214static inline void
 215inode_inc_iversion(struct inode *inode)
 216{
 217        inode_maybe_inc_iversion(inode, true);
 218}
 219
 220/**
 221 * inode_iversion_need_inc - is the i_version in need of being incremented?
 222 * @inode: inode to check
 223 *
 224 * Returns whether the inode->i_version counter needs incrementing on the next
 225 * change. Just fetch the value and check the QUERIED flag.
 226 */
 227static inline bool
 228inode_iversion_need_inc(struct inode *inode)
 229{
 230        return inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) & I_VERSION_QUERIED;
 231}
 232
 233/**
 234 * inode_inc_iversion_raw - forcibly increment raw i_version
 235 * @inode: inode that needs to be updated
 236 *
 237 * Forcbily increment the raw i_version field. This always results in a change
 238 * to the raw value.
 239 *
 240 * NFS will use the i_version field to store the value from the server. It
 241 * mostly treats it as opaque, but in the case where it holds a write
 242 * delegation, it must increment the value itself. This function does that.
 243 */
 244static inline void
 245inode_inc_iversion_raw(struct inode *inode)
 246{
 247        atomic64_inc(&inode->i_version);
 248}
 249
 250/**
 251 * inode_peek_iversion - read i_version without flagging it to be incremented
 252 * @inode: inode from which i_version should be read
 253 *
 254 * Read the inode i_version counter for an inode without registering it as a
 255 * query.
 256 *
 257 * This is typically used by local filesystems that need to store an i_version
 258 * on disk. In that situation, it's not necessary to flag it as having been
 259 * viewed, as the result won't be used to gauge changes from that point.
 260 */
 261static inline u64
 262inode_peek_iversion(const struct inode *inode)
 263{
 264        return inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) >> I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT;
 265}
 266
 267/**
 268 * inode_query_iversion - read i_version for later use
 269 * @inode: inode from which i_version should be read
 270 *
 271 * Read the inode i_version counter. This should be used by callers that wish
 272 * to store the returned i_version for later comparison. This will guarantee
 273 * that a later query of the i_version will result in a different value if
 274 * anything has changed.
 275 *
 276 * In this implementation, we fetch the current value, set the QUERIED flag and
 277 * then try to swap it into place with a cmpxchg, if it wasn't already set. If
 278 * that fails, we try again with the newly fetched value from the cmpxchg.
 279 */
 280static inline u64
 281inode_query_iversion(struct inode *inode)
 282{
 283        u64 cur, old, new;
 284
 285        cur = inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode);
 286        for (;;) {
 287                /* If flag is already set, then no need to swap */
 288                if (cur & I_VERSION_QUERIED) {
 289                        /*
 290                         * This barrier (and the implicit barrier in the
 291                         * cmpxchg below) pairs with the barrier in
 292                         * inode_maybe_inc_iversion().
 293                         */
 294                        smp_mb();
 295                        break;
 296                }
 297
 298                new = cur | I_VERSION_QUERIED;
 299                old = atomic64_cmpxchg(&inode->i_version, cur, new);
 300                if (likely(old == cur))
 301                        break;
 302                cur = old;
 303        }
 304        return cur >> I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT;
 305}
 306
 307/**
 308 * inode_eq_iversion_raw - check whether the raw i_version counter has changed
 309 * @inode: inode to check
 310 * @old: old value to check against its i_version
 311 *
 312 * Compare the current raw i_version counter with a previous one. Returns true
 313 * if they are the same or false if they are different.
 314 */
 315static inline bool
 316inode_eq_iversion_raw(const struct inode *inode, u64 old)
 317{
 318        return inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) == old;
 319}
 320
 321/**
 322 * inode_eq_iversion - check whether the i_version counter has changed
 323 * @inode: inode to check
 324 * @old: old value to check against its i_version
 325 *
 326 * Compare an i_version counter with a previous one. Returns true if they are
 327 * the same, and false if they are different.
 328 *
 329 * Note that we don't need to set the QUERIED flag in this case, as the value
 330 * in the inode is not being recorded for later use.
 331 */
 332static inline bool
 333inode_eq_iversion(const struct inode *inode, u64 old)
 334{
 335        return inode_peek_iversion(inode) == old;
 336}
 337#endif
 338