kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netfs.h, branch v6.19.11

netfs: Fix the handling of stream->front by removing it

2026-04-02T11:25:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0e764b9d46071668969410ec5429be0e2f38c6d3 ] The netfs_io_stream::front member is meant to point to the subrequest currently being collected on a stream, but it isn't actually used this way by direct write (which mostly ignores it). However, there's a tracepoint which looks at it. Further, stream->front is actually redundant with stream->subrequests.next. Fix the potential problem in the direct code by just removing the member and using stream->subrequests.next instead, thereby also simplifying the code. Fixes: a0b4c7a49137 ("netfs: Fix unbuffered/DIO writes to dispatch subrequests in strict sequence") Reported-by: Paulo Alcantara Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4158599.1774426817@warthog.procyon.org.uk Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mempool: rename struct mempool_s to struct mempool

2025-09-13T23:54:59+00:00

Drop the pointless _s prefix and align to the usual struct naming to prepare for actually using the struct instead of the typedef so that random headers don't need to include mempool.h for just having a pointer to the mempool. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250812083105.371295-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

netfs: Fix unbuffered write error handling

2025-08-15T13:56:49+00:00

If all the subrequests in an unbuffered write stream fail, the subrequest collector doesn't update the stream->transferred value and it retains its initial LONG_MAX value. Unfortunately, if all active streams fail, then we take the smallest value of { LONG_MAX, LONG_MAX, ... } as the value to set in wreq->transferred - which is then returned from ->write_iter(). LONG_MAX was chosen as the initial value so that all the streams can be quickly assessed by taking the smallest value of all stream->transferred - but this only works if we've set any of them. Fix this by adding a flag to indicate whether the value in stream->transferred is valid and checking that when we integrate the values. stream->transferred can then be initialised to zero. This was found by running the generic/750 xfstest against cifs with cache=none. It splices data to the target file. Once (if) it has used up all the available scratch space, the writes start failing with ENOSPC. This causes ->write_iter() to fail. However, it was returning wreq->transferred, i.e. LONG_MAX, rather than an error (because it thought the amount transferred was non-zero) and iter_file_splice_write() would then try to clean up that amount of pipe bufferage - leading to an oops when it overran. The kernel log showed: CIFS: VFS: Send error in write = -28 followed by: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 with: RIP: 0010:iter_file_splice_write+0x3a4/0x520 do_splice+0x197/0x4e0 or: RIP: 0010:pipe_buf_release (include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h:282) iter_file_splice_write (fs/splice.c:755) Also put a warning check into splice to announce if ->write_iter() returned that it had written more than it was asked to. Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation") Reported-by: Xiaoli Feng Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220445 Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/915443.1755207950@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Steve French cc: Shyam Prasad N cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-07-28T18:22:56+00:00

Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle. Features: - Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate to the filesystem's buffered I/O path. Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag. Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb. Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation. Cleanups: - don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open() - proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check - fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function - vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes() - filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper - fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end() - VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys - netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request() Fixes: - eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion - eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning - fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo - fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake() - fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files() - docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem - fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize - fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow() - fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable - fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro - fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits) netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request() eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning ext4: support uncached buffered I/O mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb * drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes() fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow() fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end() fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake() docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check ...

netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()

2025-07-23T13:08:36+00:00

Commit c245868524cc ("netfs: Remove the old writeback code") removed the implementation but leave declaration. Signed-off-by: Yue Haibing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250723122329.923223-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

netfs: Renumber the NETFS_RREQ_* flags to make traces easier to read

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

Renumber the NETFS_RREQ_* flags to put the most useful status bits in the bottom nibble - and therefore the last hex digit in the trace output - making it easier to grasp the state at a glance. In particular, put the IN_PROGRESS flag in bit 0 and ALL_QUEUED at bit 1. Also make the flags field in /proc/fs/netfs/requests larger to accommodate all the flags. Also make the flags field in the netfs_sreq tracepoint larger to accommodate all the NETFS_SREQ_* flags. Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250701163852.2171681-13-dhowells@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org 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 undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads

2025-05-23T08:35:03+00:00

On cifs, "DIO reads" (specified by O_DIRECT) need to be differentiated from "unbuffered reads" (specified by cache=none in the mount parameters). The difference is flagged in the protocol and the server may behave differently: Windows Server will, for example, mandate that DIO reads are block aligned. Fix this by adding a NETFS_UNBUFFERED_READ to differentiate this from NETFS_DIO_READ, parallelling the write differentiation that already exists. cifs will then do the right thing. Fixes: 016dc8516aec ("netfs: Implement unbuffered/DIO read support") Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3444961.1747987072@warthog.procyon.org.uk Reviewed-by: "Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat)" Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko cc: Steve French cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org 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 the request's work item to not require a ref

2025-05-21T12:35:20+00:00

When the netfs_io_request struct's work item is queued, it must be supplied with a ref to the work item struct to prevent it being deallocated whilst on the queue or whilst it is being processed. This is tricky to manage as we have to get a ref before we try and queue it and then we may find it's already queued and is thus already holding a ref - in which case we have to try and get rid of the ref again. The problem comes if we're in BH or IRQ context and need to drop the ref: if netfs_put_request() reduces the count to 0, we have to do the cleanup - but the cleanup may need to wait. Fix this by adding a new work item to the request, ->cleanup_work, and dispatching that when the refcount hits zero. That can then synchronously cancel any outstanding work on the main work item before doing the cleanup. Adding a new work item also deals with another problem upstream where it's sometimes changing the work func in the put function and requeuing it - which has occasionally in the past caused the cleanup to happen incorrectly. As a bonus, this allows us to get rid of the 'was_async' parameter from a bunch of functions. This indicated whether the put function might not be permitted to sleep. Fixes: 3d3c95046742 ("netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers") Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-4-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: Marc Dionne cc: Steve French cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner