On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:05:38PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > __kernel_write_iter() is one such; for less obvious specimen see > drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-file.c:nvmet_file_submit_bvec() - there > we have iocb coming from the caller and *not* fed to init_sync_kiocb(), > so Christoph's suggestion doesn't work either. Sure, we could take > care of that by adding ki_flags |= IOCB_WRITE in there, but... None of the asyc users of iocbs currently uses init_sync_kiocb. My suggestion is to use it everywhere - we have less than a dozen of these that I all listed.
