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-rw-r--r--pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/special_file.go5
-rw-r--r--pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/sync.go42
-rw-r--r--test/syscalls/BUILD1
3 files changed, 37 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/special_file.go b/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/special_file.go
index a016cbae1..2b381af05 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/special_file.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/special_file.go
@@ -235,8 +235,5 @@ func (fd *specialFileFD) Seek(ctx context.Context, offset int64, whence int32) (
// Sync implements vfs.FileDescriptionImpl.Sync.
func (fd *specialFileFD) Sync(ctx context.Context) error {
- if !fd.vfsfd.IsWritable() {
- return nil
- }
- return fd.handle.sync(ctx)
+ return fd.dentry().syncSharedHandle(ctx)
}
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/sync.go b/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/sync.go
index 365250b0b..0d0ebf46a 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/sync.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/sync.go
@@ -65,10 +65,8 @@ func SyncFileRange(t *kernel.Task, args arch.SyscallArguments) (uintptr, *kernel
nbytes := args[2].Int64()
flags := args[3].Uint()
- if offset < 0 {
- return 0, nil, syserror.EINVAL
- }
- if nbytes < 0 {
+ // Check for negative values and overflow.
+ if offset < 0 || offset+nbytes < 0 {
return 0, nil, syserror.EINVAL
}
if flags&^(linux.SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|linux.SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE|linux.SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) != 0 {
@@ -81,7 +79,37 @@ func SyncFileRange(t *kernel.Task, args arch.SyscallArguments) (uintptr, *kernel
}
defer file.DecRef()
- // TODO(gvisor.dev/issue/1897): Avoid writeback of data ranges outside of
- // [offset, offset+nbytes).
- return 0, nil, file.Sync(t)
+ // TODO(gvisor.dev/issue/1897): Currently, the only file syncing we support
+ // is a full-file sync, i.e. fsync(2). As a result, there are severe
+ // limitations on how much we support sync_file_range:
+ // - In Linux, sync_file_range(2) doesn't write out the file's metadata, even
+ // if the file size is changed. We do.
+ // - We always sync the entire file instead of [offset, offset+nbytes).
+ // - We do not support the use of WAIT_BEFORE without WAIT_AFTER. For
+ // correctness, we would have to perform a write-out every time WAIT_BEFORE
+ // was used, but this would be much more expensive than expected if there
+ // were no write-out operations in progress.
+ // - Whenever WAIT_AFTER is used, we sync the file.
+ // - Ignore WRITE. If this flag is used with WAIT_AFTER, then the file will
+ // be synced anyway. If this flag is used without WAIT_AFTER, then it is
+ // safe (and less expensive) to do nothing, because the syscall will not
+ // wait for the write-out to complete--we only need to make sure that the
+ // next time WAIT_BEFORE or WAIT_AFTER are used, the write-out completes.
+ // - According to fs/sync.c, WAIT_BEFORE|WAIT_AFTER "will detect any I/O
+ // errors or ENOSPC conditions and will return those to the caller, after
+ // clearing the EIO and ENOSPC flags in the address_space." We don't do
+ // this.
+
+ if flags&linux.SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE != 0 &&
+ flags&linux.SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER == 0 {
+ t.Kernel().EmitUnimplementedEvent(t)
+ return 0, nil, syserror.ENOSYS
+ }
+
+ if flags&linux.SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER != 0 {
+ if err := file.Sync(t); err != nil {
+ return 0, nil, syserror.ConvertIntr(err, kernel.ERESTARTSYS)
+ }
+ }
+ return 0, nil, nil
}
diff --git a/test/syscalls/BUILD b/test/syscalls/BUILD
index 67645cc83..790190273 100644
--- a/test/syscalls/BUILD
+++ b/test/syscalls/BUILD
@@ -962,6 +962,7 @@ syscall_test(
syscall_test(
add_overlay = True,
test = "//test/syscalls/linux:sync_file_range_test",
+ vfs2 = "True",
)
syscall_test(