platform_system_core/fs_mgr/libfiemap
David Anderson 42d676db47 libsnapshot_test: Fix running on DSUs.
Because DSUs mount userdata via a fiemap, libfiemap has trouble creating
additional fiemaps on top of it. The complex stacking of dm-linear is
not supported. For other libfiemap tests we've hacked around this
limitation. If LpMetadata is in a folder named "test", we allow the
backing device search to stop at a dm node, whereas otherwise it would
need to stop at a physical device.

However this was not quite enough for vts_libsnapshot_test, because (1)
the test folder was not included in the pattern match, and (2)
CreateLogicalPartition() could not handle device-mapper names, as it
expects a named physical partition. Addressing both of these allows the
tests to pass on DSUs.

Bug: 156713441
Test: vts_libsnapshot_test on DSU
Change-Id: Ie7ee70e31dff0809a5f0c402ed132d80dd03d9b1
Merged-In: Ie7ee70e31dff0809a5f0c402ed132d80dd03d9b1
2020-05-19 18:48:10 +00:00
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include/libfiemap remount: Use /data for backing scratch storage. 2020-01-28 12:04:38 -08:00
testdata fs_mgr: Move libfiemap back to fs_mgr from system/gsid. 2019-12-16 20:10:26 -08:00
Android.bp libfiemap: Ignore userdata requirements in fiemap_writer_test when running a DSU. 2020-04-28 15:28:39 -07:00
binder.cpp Convert gsid to use the dynamic AIDL service infrastructure 2020-03-10 17:35:41 +08:00
fiemap_status.cpp libfiemap: Create/Open returns FiemapStatus 2020-01-07 13:01:58 -08:00
fiemap_writer.cpp fiemap: fix fiemap size and log message when last extent 2020-02-05 18:27:40 +00:00
fiemap_writer_test.cpp libfiemap: Ignore userdata requirements in fiemap_writer_test when running a DSU. 2020-04-28 15:28:39 -07:00
image_manager.cpp libsnapshot_test: Fix running on DSUs. 2020-05-19 18:48:10 +00:00
image_test.cpp libfiemap: Remove brittle tests. 2020-05-05 19:16:21 -07:00
metadata.cpp Extra logging for metadata errors 2020-02-04 20:49:59 +00:00
metadata.h libfiemap: Add helpers to remove images from recovery. 2019-12-20 16:41:35 -08:00
passthrough.cpp fs_mgr: Move libfiemap back to fs_mgr from system/gsid. 2019-12-16 20:10:26 -08:00
README.md fs_mgr: Move libfiemap back to fs_mgr from system/gsid. 2019-12-16 20:10:26 -08:00
split_fiemap_writer.cpp libfiemap: Create/Open returns FiemapStatus 2020-01-07 13:01:58 -08:00
utility.cpp libfiemap: Create/Open returns FiemapStatus 2020-01-07 13:01:58 -08:00
utility.h libfiemap: Create/Open returns FiemapStatus 2020-01-07 13:01:58 -08:00

libfiemap

libfiemap is a library for creating block-devices that are backed by storage in read-write partitions. It exists primary for gsid. Generally, the library works by using libfiemap_writer to allocate large files within filesystem, and then tracks their extents.

There are three main uses for libfiemap:

  • Creating images that will act as block devices. For example, gsid needs to create a system_gsi image to store Dynamic System Updates.
  • Mapping the image as a block device while /data is mounted. This is fairly tricky and is described in more detail below.
  • Mapping the image as a block device during first-stage init. This is simple because it uses the same logic from dynamic partitions.

Image creation is done through SplitFiemap. Depending on the file system, a large image may have to be split into multiple files. On Ext4 the limit is 16GiB and on FAT32 it's 4GiB. Images are saved into /data/gsi/<name>/ where <name> is chosen by the process requesting the image.

At the same time, a file called /metadata/gsi/<name>/lp_metadata is created. This is a super partition header that allows first-stage init to create dynamic partitions from the image files. It also tracks the canonical size of the image, since the file size may be larger due to alignment.

Mapping

It is easy to make block devices out of blocks on /data when it is not mounted, so first-stage init has no issues mapping dynamic partitions from images. After /data is mounted however, there are two problems:

  • /data is encrypted.
  • /dev/block/by-name/data may be marked as in-use.

We break the problem down into three scenarios.

FDE and Metadata Encrypted Devices

When FDE or metadata encryption is used, /data is not mounted from /dev/block/by-name/data. Instead, it is mounted from an intermediate dm-crypt or dm-default-key device. This means the underlying device is not marked in use, and we can create new dm-linear devices on top of it.

On these devices, a block device for an image will consist of a single device-mapper device with a dm-linear table entry for each extent in the backing file.

Unencrypted and FBE-encrypted Devices

When a device is unencrypted, or is encrypted with FBE but not metadata encryption, we instead use a loop device with LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO enabled. Since /data/gsi has encryption disabled, this means the raw blocks will be unencrypted as well.

Split Images

If an image was too large to store a single file on the underlying filesystem, on an FBE/unencrypted device we will have multiple loop devices. In this case, we create a device-mapper device as well. For each loop device it will have one dm-linear table entry spanning the length of the device.

State Tracking

It's important that we know whether or not an image is currently in-use by a block device. It could be catastrophic to write to a dm-linear device if the underlying blocks are no longer owned by the original file. Thus, when mapping an image, we create a property called gsid.mapped_image.<name> and set it to the path of the block device.

Additionally, we create a /metadata/gsi/<subdir>/<name>.status file. Each line in this file denotes a dependency on either a device-mapper node or a loop device. When deleting a block device, this file is used to release all resources.