kernel/linux.git/fs/netfs/buffered_write.c, branch v6.18.34

netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()

2026-06-01T15:50:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit ccde2ac757c713535b224233a296de40efe5212d ] Under some circumstances, netfs_perform_write() doesn't correctly manipulate folio->private between NULL, NETFS_FOLIO_COPY_TO_CACHE, pointing to a group and pointing to a netfs_folio struct, leading to potential multiple attachments of private data with associated folio ref leaks and also leaks of netfs_folio structs or netfs_group refs. Fix this by consolidating the place at which a folio is marked uptodate in one place and having that look at what's attached to folio->private and decide how to clean it up and then set the new group. Also, the content shouldn't be flushed if group is NULL, even if a group is specified in the netfs_group parameter, as that would be the case for a new folio. A filesystem should always specify netfs_group or never specify netfs_group. The Sashiko auto-review tool noted that it was theoretically possible that the fpos >= ctx->zero_point section might leak if it modified a streaming write folio. This is unlikely, but with a network filesystem, third party changes can happen. It also pointed out that __netfs_set_group() would leak if called multiple times on the same folio from the "whole folio modify section". Fixes: 8f52de0077ba ("netfs: Reduce number of conditional branches in netfs_perform_write()") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260414082004.3756080-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512123404.719402-22-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Matthew Wilcox cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfs: Fix write streaming disablement if fd open O_RDWR

2026-06-01T15:50:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit 70a7b9193bbbfceaab5974de66834c64ccc875dd ] In netfs_perform_write(), "write streaming" (the caching of dirty data in dirty but !uptodate folios) is performed to avoid the need to read data that is just going to get immediately overwritten. However, this is/will be disabled in three circumstances: if the fd is open O_RDWR, if fscache is in use (as we need to round out the blocks for DIO) or if content encryption is enabled (again for rounding out purposes). The idea behind disabling it if the fd is open O_RDWR is that we'd need to flush the write-streaming page before we could read the data, particularly through mmap. But netfs now fills in the gaps if ->read_folio() is called on the page, so that is unnecessary. Further, this doesn't actually work if a separate fd is open for reading. Fix this by removing the check for O_RDWR, thereby allowing streaming writes even when we might read. This caused a number of problems with the generic/522 xfstest, but those are now fixed. Fixes: c38f4e96e605 ("netfs: Provide func to copy data to pagecache for buffered write") Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512123404.719402-17-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Matthew Wilcox cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfs: Fix streaming write being overwritten

2026-06-01T15:50:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7b4dcf1b9455a6e52ac7478b4057dbe10359576d ] In order to avoid reading whilst writing, netfslib will allow "streaming writes" in which dirty data is stored directly into folios without reading them first. Such folios are marked dirty but may not be marked uptodate. If a folio is entirely written by a streaming write, uptodate will be set, otherwise it will have a netfs_folio struct attached to ->private recording the dirty region. In the event that a partially written streaming write page is to be overwritten entirely by a single write(), netfs_perform_write() will try to copy over it, but doesn't discard the netfs_folio if it succeeds; further, it doesn't correctly handle a partial copy that overwrites some of the dirty data. Fix this by the following: (1) If the folio is successfully overwritten, free the netfs_folio struct before marking the page uptodate. (2) If the copy to the folio partially fails, but short of the dirty data, just ignore the copy. (3) If the copy partially fails and overwrites some of the dirty data, accept the copy, update the netfs_folio struct to record the new data. If the folio is now filled, free the netfs_folio and set uptodate, otherwise return a partial write. Found with: fsx -q -N 1000000 -p 10000 -o 128000 -l 600000 \ /xfstest.test/junk --replay-ops=junk.fsxops using the following as junk.fsxops: truncate 0x0 0 0x927c0 write 0x63fb8 0x53c8 0 copy_range 0xb704 0x19b9 0x24429 0x79380 write 0x2402b 0x144a2 0x90660 * write 0x204d5 0x140a0 0x927c0 * copy_range 0x1f72c 0x137d0 0x7a906 0x927c0 * read 0x00000 0x20000 0x9157c read 0x20000 0x20000 0x9157c read 0x40000 0x20000 0x9157c read 0x60000 0x20000 0x9157c read 0x7e1a0 0xcfb9 0x9157c on cifs with the default cache option. It shows folio 0x24 misbehaving if the FMODE_READ check is commented out in netfs_perform_write(): if (//(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) || netfs_is_cache_enabled(ctx)) { and no fscache. This was initially found with the generic/522 xfstest. Fixes: 8f52de0077ba ("netfs: Reduce number of conditional branches in netfs_perform_write()") Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512123404.719402-14-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Matthew Wilcox cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfs: Defer the emission of trace_netfs_folio()

2026-06-01T15:50:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit daeb443b92817021c1234e8eded219e164b7c35d ] Change netfs_perform_write() to keep the netfs_folio trace value in a variable and emit it later to make it easier to choose the value displayed. This is a prerequisite for a subsequent patch. Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260414082004.3756080-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512123404.719402-13-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Matthew Wilcox cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Stable-dep-of: 7b4dcf1b9455 ("netfs: Fix streaming write being overwritten") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfs: Prevent duplicate unlocking

2025-09-15T11:57:15+00:00

The filio lock has been released here, so there is no need to jump to error_folio_unlock to release it again. Reported-by: syzbot+b73c7d94a151e2ee1e9b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b73c7d94a151e2ee1e9b Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu Acked-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

netfs: Merge i_size update functions

2025-07-01T20:37:14+00:00

Netfslib has two functions for updating the i_size after a write: one for buffered writes into the pagecache and one for direct/unbuffered writes. However, what needs to be done is much the same in both cases, so merge them together. This does raise one question, though: should updating the i_size after a direct write do the same estimated update of i_blocks as is done for buffered writes. Also get rid of the cleanup function pointer from netfs_io_request as it's only used for direct write to update i_size; instead do the i_size setting directly from write collection. Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250701163852.2171681-12-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Steve French cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

netfs: Fix i_size updating

2025-07-01T20:37:14+00:00

Fix the updating of i_size, particularly in regard to the completion of DIO writes and especially async DIO writes by using a lock. The bug is triggered occasionally by the generic/207 xfstest as it chucks a bunch of AIO DIO writes at the filesystem and then checks that fstat() returns a reasonable st_size as each completes. The problem is that netfs is trying to do "if new_size > inode->i_size, update inode->i_size" sort of thing but without a lock around it. This can be seen with cifs, but shouldn't be seen with kafs because kafs serialises modification ops on the client whereas cifs sends the requests to the server as they're generated and lets the server order them. Fixes: 153a9961b551 ("netfs: Implement unbuffered/DIO write support") Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250701163852.2171681-11-dhowells@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) cc: Steve French cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge patch series "netfs: Miscellaneous fixes"

2025-05-21T12:35:34+00:00

David Howells says: Here are some miscellaneous fixes and changes for netfslib, if you could pull them: (1) Fix an oops in write-retry due to mis-resetting the I/O iterator. (2) Fix the recording of transferred bytes for short DIO reads. (3) Fix a request's work item to not require a reference, thereby avoiding the need to get rid of it in BH/IRQ context. (4) Fix waiting and waking to be consistent about the waitqueue used. * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-1-dhowells@redhat.com: netfs: Fix wait/wake to be consistent about the waitqueue used netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref netfs: Fix setting of transferred bytes with short DIO reads netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-1-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

netfs: Fix wait/wake to be consistent about the waitqueue used

2025-05-21T12:35:21+00:00

Fix further inconsistencies in the use of waitqueues (clear_and_wake_up_bit() vs private waitqueue). Move some of this stuff from the read and write sides into common code so that it can be done in fewer places. To make this work, async I/O needs to set NETFS_RREQ_OFFLOAD_COLLECTION to indicate that a workqueue will do the collecting and places that call the wait function need to deal with it returning the amount transferred. Fixes: e2d46f2ec332 ("netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item") Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-5-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Marc Dionne cc: Steve French cc: Ihor Solodrai cc: Eric Van Hensbergen cc: Latchesar Ionkov cc: Dominique Martinet cc: Christian Schoenebeck cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Jeff Layton cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH

2025-05-21T12:34:37+00:00

This flag was added by commit 41d8e7673a77 ("netfs: Implement a write-through caching option") but it was never used. Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519134813.2975312-5-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner