On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 02:27:09PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > All the callers of vfs_iter_write() call file_start_write() just before > calling vfs_iter_write() except for target_core_file's fd_do_rw(). Can you add a patch to first add it to fd_do_rw? While this crates a bit of churn, it has two benefits: - it gives us an easily backportable fix - it makes this patch a transformation that doesn't change behavior. Please also cc the scsi and target lists. It probably makes sense to even expedite it and send it for 6.7-rc inclusion separately. be a 6.7 candidate