[Samba] io_uring cause data corruption
A L
mail at lechevalier.se
Sun Apr 26 09:51:42 UTC 2020
Hello,
Using Samba 4.12.1 with kernel 5.6.7 on Gentoo Linux, I wanted to test
the new vfs_io_uring module.
* Stand-alone Samba server acting as NAS for home setup.
* /media/usb-backup is a mounted read-only btrfs filesystem.
* Samba share exported as:
===== smb.conf =====
[global]
log level = 1
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = NAS
server string = Samba Server
server role = standalone server
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.
interfaces = lan
max protocol = SMB3_11
log file = /var/log/samba/%I.log
max log size = 10240
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
wins support = yes
dns proxy = yes
[usb-backup]
comment = USB Backup - Media files
path = /media/usb-backup
writeable = no
browseable = yes
read only = yes
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
guest only = Yes
guest ok = Yes
force user = nasuser
force group = nas
vfs objects = btrfs, io_uring (also tried without the btrfs module)
=====
* Connected from a Windows 10 computer over 1G ethernet.
* Copy data using Windows Explorer and FastCopy(1) from the Samba share
to a local disk.
* Verify the sha-256 sum on the files.
From what I can see there is data corruption on many of the files.
Sha-256 does not match. I copied the same files many times and the data
corruption occurs within minutes. The total data set is about 800GB.
When I disable io_uring, no data corruptions occur. I verified this with
multiple TBs of data transferred and no corruptions were detected.
Samba log files contain no errors, nor does dmesg. The Windows client
detect no error when copying the files.
I'd really like to debug this problem and find the cause. io_uring seems
to give a massive performance i/o boost.
* net-fs/samba-4.12.1
* sys-devel/gcc-9.3.0
* sys-libs/glibc-2.30-r8
* sys-kernel/linux-headers-5.6
* Linux-kernel-5.6.7-gentoo
Compile info:
* CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
* CPU: "AMD Athlon 3000G with Radeon Vega Graphics"
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