[00/10] fanotify: add pre-content hooks

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Josef Bacik July 25, 2024, 6:19 p.m. UTC

Hello,

These are the patches for the bare bones pre-content fanotify support.  The
majority of this work is Amir's, my contribution to this has solely been around
adding the page fault hooks, testing and validating everything.  I'm sending it
because Amir is traveling a bunch, and I touched it last so I'm going to take
all the hate and he can take all the credit.

There is a PoC that I've been using to validate this work, you can find the git
repo here

https://github.com/josefbacik/remote-fetch

This consists of 3 different tools.

1. populate.  This just creates all the stub files in the directory from the
   source directory.  Just run ./populate ~/linux ~/hsm-linux and it'll
   recursively create all of the stub files and directories.
2. remote-fetch.  This is the actual PoC, you just point it at the source and
   destination directory and then you can do whatever.  ./remote-fetch ~/linux
   ~/hsm-linux.
3. mmap-validate.  This was to validate the pagefault thing, this is likely what
   will be turned into the selftest with remote-fetch.  It creates a file and
   then you can validate the file matches the right pattern with both normal
   reads and mmap.  Normally I do something like

   ./mmap-validate create ~/src/foo
   ./populate ~/src ~/dst
   ./rmeote-fetch ~/src ~/dst
   ./mmap-validate validate ~/dst/foo

I did a bunch of testing, I also got some performance numbers.  I copied a
kernel tree, and then did remote-fetch, and then make -j4

Normal
real    9m49.709s
user    28m11.372s
sys     4m57.304s

HSM
real    10m6.454s
user    29m10.517s
sys     5m2.617s

So ~17 seconds more to build with HSM.  I then did a make mrproper on both trees
to see the size

[root@fedora ~]# du -hs /src/linux
1.6G    /src/linux
[root@fedora ~]# du -hs dst
125M    dst

This mirrors the sort of savings we've seen in production.

Meta has had these patches (minus the page fault patch) deployed in production
for almost a year with our own utility for doing on-demand package fetching.
The savings from this has been pretty significant.

The page-fault hooks are necessary for the last thing we need, which is
on-demand range fetching of executables.  Some of our binaries are several gigs
large, having the ability to remote fetch them on demand is a huge win for us
not only with space savings, but with startup time of containers.

There will be tests for this going into LTP once we're satisfied with the
patches and they're on their way upstream.  Thanks,

Josef

Amir Goldstein (8):
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on open
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_MODIFY permission event
  fanotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response

Josef Bacik (2):
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault

 fs/namei.c                         |   9 +++
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c      |  29 ++++++--
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h      |  10 +++
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
 fs/notify/fsnotify.c               |  15 +++-
 include/linux/fanotify.h           |  24 +++++--
 include/linux/fsnotify.h           |  54 ++++++++++++--
 include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h   |  59 ++++++++++++++-
 include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h      |  17 +++++
 mm/filemap.c                       |  50 +++++++++++--
 security/selinux/hooks.c           |   3 +-
 11 files changed, 335 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)