On 03/07, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > > Assigning the newly allocated page to pipe->tmp_page, only to > unconditionally clear ->tmp_page a little later, seems somewhat odd. Oh yes, but could you look at [PATCH v2 1/1] pipe: change pipe_write() to never add a zero-sized buffer https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250210114039.GA3588@xxxxxxxxxx/ already in Christian's tree although I will probably need to rebase this patch on top of the recent changes. Oleg. > It made sense prior to commit a194dfe6e6f6 ("pipe: Rearrange sequence > in pipe_write() to preallocate slot"), when a user copy was done > between the allocation and the buf->page = page assignment, and a > failure there would then just leave the pipe's one-element page cache > populated. Now, the same purpose is served by the page being inserted > as a size-0 buffer, and the next write attempting to merge with that > buffer. > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/pipe.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c > index 4d0799e4e719..097400cce241 100644 > --- a/fs/pipe.c > +++ b/fs/pipe.c > @@ -508,13 +508,14 @@ pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from) > struct page *page = pipe->tmp_page; > int copied; > > - if (!page) { > + if (page) { > + pipe->tmp_page = NULL; > + } else { > page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_ACCOUNT); > if (unlikely(!page)) { > ret = ret ? : -ENOMEM; > break; > } > - pipe->tmp_page = page; > } > > /* Allocate a slot in the ring in advance and attach an > @@ -534,7 +535,6 @@ pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from) > buf->flags = PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET; > else > buf->flags = PIPE_BUF_FLAG_CAN_MERGE; > - pipe->tmp_page = NULL; > > copied = copy_page_from_iter(page, 0, PAGE_SIZE, from); > if (unlikely(copied < PAGE_SIZE && iov_iter_count(from))) { > -- > 2.48.1 >
