On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:49:40AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Fixes: 876bec6f9bbfcb3 ("vfs: refactor clone/dedupe_file_range common functions") > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (I approve of this patch going upstream) However, I think there are further simplifications to be made here. With this patch applied, vfs_dedupe_get_page() now looks like this: static struct page *vfs_dedupe_get_page(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset) { struct page *page; page = read_mapping_page(inode->i_mapping, offset >> PAGE_SHIFT, NULL); if (IS_ERR(page)) return page; if (!PageUptodate(page)) { put_page(page); return ERR_PTR(-EIO); } return page; } But I don't think read_mapping_page() can return a page which doesn't have PageUptodate set. Follow the path down through read_cache_page() into do_read_cache_page(). Other than the locations which return an ERR_PTR, the only return point is at the out: label. Three of the gotos to 'out' are guarded by 'if (PageUptodate)'. The fourth is after calling wait_on_page_read(). Which will return ERR_PTR(-EIO) if the page isn't Uptodate after being unlocked. Subtracting that never-exercised check from the routine leaves us with: static struct page *vfs_dedupe_get_page(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset) { struct page *page; page = read_mapping_page(inode->i_mapping, offset >> PAGE_SHIFT, NULL); if (IS_ERR(page)) return page; return page; } which is fundamentally just: static struct page *vfs_dedupe_get_page(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset) { return read_mapping_page(inode->i_mapping, offset >> PAGE_SHIFT, NULL); } which seems like it might have a better name and be located in pagemap.h? I might also like to see out: + VM_BUG_ON(!PageUptodate(page)); mark_page_accessed(page); at the end of do_read_cache_page(), just to be sure nobody ever screws that up.