The patch titled Subject: fs/buffer: replace ll_rw_block() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is fs-buffer-replace-ll_rw_block.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fs-buffer-replace-ll_rw_block.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/buffer: replace ll_rw_block() Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:34:54 +0800 ll_rw_block() is not safe for the sync IO path because it skip buffers which has been locked by others, it could lead to false positive EIO when submitting read IO. So stop using ll_rw_block(), switch to use new helpers which could guarantee buffer locked and submit IO if needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-4-yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/buffer.c~fs-buffer-replace-ll_rw_block +++ a/fs/buffer.c @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ void write_boundary_block(struct block_d struct buffer_head *bh = __find_get_block(bdev, bblock + 1, blocksize); if (bh) { if (buffer_dirty(bh)) - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_WRITE, 1, &bh); + write_dirty_buffer(bh, 0); put_bh(bh); } } @@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ void __breadahead(struct block_device *b { struct buffer_head *bh = __getblk(bdev, block, size); if (likely(bh)) { - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ | REQ_RAHEAD, 1, &bh); + bh_readahead(bh, REQ_RAHEAD); brelse(bh); } } @@ -2022,7 +2022,7 @@ int __block_write_begin_int(struct folio if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && !buffer_delay(bh) && !buffer_unwritten(bh) && (block_start < from || block_end > to)) { - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, 1, &bh); + bh_read_nowait(bh, 0); *wait_bh++=bh; } } @@ -2582,11 +2582,9 @@ int block_truncate_page(struct address_s set_buffer_uptodate(bh); if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && !buffer_delay(bh) && !buffer_unwritten(bh)) { - err = -EIO; - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, 1, &bh); - wait_on_buffer(bh); + err = bh_read(bh, 0); /* Uhhuh. Read error. Complain and punt. */ - if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) + if (err < 0) goto unlock; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx are fs-buffer-remove-__breadahead_gfp.patch fs-buffer-add-some-new-buffer-read-helpers.patch fs-buffer-replace-ll_rw_block.patch gfs2-replace-ll_rw_block.patch isofs-replace-ll_rw_block.patch jbd2-replace-ll_rw_block.patch ntfs3-replace-ll_rw_block.patch ocfs2-replace-ll_rw_block.patch reiserfs-replace-ll_rw_block.patch udf-replace-ll_rw_block.patch ufs-replace-ll_rw_block.patch fs-buffer-remove-ll_rw_block-helper.patch ext2-replace-bh_submit_read-helper-with-bh_read_locked.patch fs-buffer-remove-bh_submit_read-helper.patch