Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2014, 17:10:54 schrieb Gui Hecheng:
> On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 10:25 +0200, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > Hello Gui,
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2014, 11:34:43 schrieb Gui Hecheng:
> > > When runing restore under lzo compression, "bad compress length"
> > > problems are encountered.
> > > It is because there is a page align problem with the @decompress_lzo,
> > > as follows:
> > > |------| |----|-| |------|...|------|
> > > page ^ page page
> > > |
> > > 3 bytes left
> > >
> > > When lzo compress pages im RAM, lzo will ensure that
> > > the 4 bytes len will be in one page as a whole.
> > > There is a situation that 3 (or less) bytes are left
> > > at the end of a page, and then the 4 bytes len is
> > > stored at the start of the next page.
> > > But the @decompress_lzo doesn't goto the start of
> > > the next page and continue to read the next 4 bytes
> > > which is across two pages, so a random value is fetched
> > > as a "bad compress length".
> > >
> > > So we just switch to the page-aligned start position to read
> > > the len of next piece of data when "bad compress length" is encounterd.
> > > If we still get bad compress length in this case, then there is a
> > > real "bad compress length", and we shall report error.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Gui Hecheng <guihc.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>
> > > ---
> > > cmds-restore.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/cmds-restore.c b/cmds-restore.c
> > > index 38a131e..8b230ab 100644
> > > --- a/cmds-restore.c
> > > +++ b/cmds-restore.c
> > > @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ static int dry_run = 0;
> > >
> > > #define LZO_LEN 4
> > > #define PAGE_CACHE_SIZE 4096
> > > +#define PAGE_CACHE_MASK (~(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1))
> > > +#define PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr) + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) \
> > > + & PAGE_CACHE_MASK)
> > > #define lzo1x_worst_compress(x) ((x) + ((x) / 16) + 64 + 3)
> > >
> > > static int decompress_zlib(char *inbuf, char *outbuf, u64 compress_len,
> > > @@ -101,6 +104,8 @@ static int decompress_lzo(unsigned char *inbuf, char
> > > *outbuf, u64 compress_len,
> > > size_t out_len = 0;
> > > size_t tot_len;
> > > size_t tot_in;
> > > + size_t tot_in_aligned;
> > > + int aligned = 0;
> > > int ret;
> > >
> > > ret = lzo_init();
> > > @@ -117,6 +122,20 @@ static int decompress_lzo(unsigned char *inbuf, char
> > > *outbuf, u64 compress_len,
> > > in_len = read_compress_length(inbuf);
> > >
> > > if ((tot_in + LZO_LEN + in_len) > tot_len) {
> > > + /*
> > > + * The LZO_LEN bytes is guaranteed to be
> > > + * in one page as a whole, so if a page
> > > + * has fewer than LZO_LEN bytes left,
> > > + * the LZO_LEN bytes should be fetched
> > > + * at the start of the next page
> > > + */
> > > + if (!aligned) {
> > > + tot_in_aligned = PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(tot_in);
> > > + inbuf += (tot_in_aligned - tot_in);
> > > + tot_in = tot_in_aligned;
> > > + aligned = 1;
> > > + continue;
> > > + }
> >
> > Small question, shouldn't the aligned check be moved out of the if block?
> > First, we could have a bad length caused by the alignment which could result
> > in a stream length less than tot_len.
>
> Ah, you have reminded me of a missing case to be covered.
>
> > Second, if we know that the length record never crosses a page, why not
> > always check for proper alignment. I think the overhead should be minimal.
>
> I don't think alignment should be checked always, because in the
> "normal" case the lzo stuff is "compact":
> [len][----data----][len][----data----]...
> It is never aligned to anything and we never knows where next @len
> starts before we read the former one. The alignement-related issue is a
> rare case.sorry, my wording was wrong. I mean always check for page crossing of the length record and move forward if yes. Marc
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