fusefrontend: sharedstorage: use byte-range lock on file header creation

Multiple hosts creating the same file at the same time could
have overwritten each other's file header, leading to data
corruption.

Fix the race by placing a byte-range lock on the file when
creating the file header.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/internal/fusefrontend/file.go b/internal/fusefrontend/file.go
index 8d0ba01..9bd05e6 100644
--- a/internal/fusefrontend/file.go
+++ b/internal/fusefrontend/file.go
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"syscall"
 
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+
 	"github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/v2/fs"
 	"github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/v2/fuse"
 
@@ -91,6 +93,13 @@ func (f *File) readFileID() ([]byte, error) {
 	// and not only the header. A header-only file will be considered empty.
 	// This makes File ID poisoning more difficult.
 	readLen := contentenc.HeaderLen + 1
+	if f.rootNode.args.SharedStorage {
+		// With -sharedstorage, we consider a header-only file as valid, because
+		// another gocryptfs process may have either:
+		// 1) just created the header, and not written further data yet.
+		// 2) truncated the file down to just the header.
+		readLen = contentenc.HeaderLen
+	}
 	buf := make([]byte, readLen)
 	n, err := f.fd.ReadAt(buf, 0)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -267,18 +276,25 @@ func (f *File) doWrite(data []byte, off int64) (uint32, syscall.Errno) {
 	//
 	// If the file ID is not cached, read it from disk
 	if f.fileTableEntry.ID == nil {
+		if err := f.LockSharedStorage(unix.F_WRLCK, 0, contentenc.HeaderLen); err != nil {
+			return 0, fs.ToErrno(err)
+		}
 		var err error
 		fileID, err := f.readFileID()
 		// Write a new file header if the file is empty
 		if err == io.EOF {
 			fileID, err = f.createHeader()
 			fileWasEmpty = true
+			// Having the unlock three times is ugly. But every other way I tried is even uglier.
+			f.LockSharedStorage(unix.F_UNLCK, 0, contentenc.HeaderLen)
 		} else if err != nil {
 			// Other errors mean readFileID() found a corrupt header
 			tlog.Warn.Printf("doWrite %d: corrupt header: %v", f.qIno.Ino, err)
+			f.LockSharedStorage(unix.F_UNLCK, 0, contentenc.HeaderLen)
 			return 0, syscall.EIO
 		}
 		if err != nil {
+			f.LockSharedStorage(unix.F_UNLCK, 0, contentenc.HeaderLen)
 			return 0, fs.ToErrno(err)
 		}
 		f.fileTableEntry.ID = fileID