Re: Losetup Direct I/O breaks BACK-FILE filesystem on CIFS share (Appears in Linux 6.10 and reproduced on mainline)

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On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 07:00:58PM +0100, nicolas.baranger@xxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Dear mainteners
> 
> Don't know if it's the right place to contact kernel developers but today I
> did report the following bug which appears in Linux 6.10 and I'm able to
> reproduce from Linux 6.10 to mainline
> 
> I think the new way CIFS is using NETFS could be one of the cause of the
> issue, as doing :

The poblem is that netfs_extract_user_iter rejects iter types other than
ubuf and iovec, which breaks loop which is using bvec iters.  It would
also break other things like io_uring pre-registered buffers, and all
of these are regressions compared to the old cifs code.





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