Hello folks, Based on the suggestion on the RFC, the treewide conversion of references to pipe->{head,tail} from unsigned int to pipe_index_t has been dropped for now. The series contains trivial cleanup suggested to limit the nr_slots in pipe_resize_ring() to be covered between pipe_index_t limits of pipe->{head,tail} and using pipe_buf() to remove the open-coded usage of masks to access pipe buffer building on Linus' cleanup of fs/fuse/dev.c in commit ebb0f38bb47f ("fs/pipe: fix pipe buffer index use in FUSE") If folks are interested in converting a selective subset of references to pipe->{head,tail} from unsigned int to pipe_index_t, please comment on https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250306113924.20004-4-kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx/ and I can send out a patch or you can go ahead and send one out yourself too :) Changes are based on Linus' tree at commit 00a7d39898c8 ("fs/pipe: add simpler helpers for common cases") --- Changelog: RFC v1..v2: o Dropped the RFC tag. o Use (piep_index_t)-1u as the upper limit for nr_slots replacing the BITS_PER_TYPE() hackery to get the limits (Oleg; Patch 1) o Patch 2 from the RFC v1 was dropped as it became redundand after the introduction of pipe_is_full() helper. o Patch 2-4 are additional cleanups introduced in this version to use pipe_buf() replacing all the open-coded logic in various subsystems. (Oleg; Patch 2-4) RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250306113924.20004-1-kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx/ --- K Prateek Nayak (4): fs/pipe: Limit the slots in pipe_resize_ring() kernel/watch_queue: Use pipe_buf() to retrieve the pipe buffer fs/pipe: Use pipe_buf() helper to retrieve pipe buffer fs/splice: Use pipe_buf() helper to retrieve pipe buffer fs/pipe.c | 13 +++++++------ fs/splice.c | 40 ++++++++++++++-------------------------- kernel/watch_queue.c | 7 +++---- 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) base-commit: 00a7d39898c8010bfd5ff62af31ca5db34421b38 -- 2.43.0