The patch titled Subject: jbd2: replace ll_rw_block() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is jbd2-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/jbd2-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: jbd2: replace ll_rw_block() Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:34:57 +0800 ll_rw_block() is not safe for the sync read path because it cannot guarantee that submitting read IO if the buffer has been locked. We could get false positive EIO after wait_on_buffer() if the buffer has been locked by others. So stop using ll_rw_block() in journal_get_superblock(). We also switch to new bh_readahead_batch() for the buffer array readahead path. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-7-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/jbd2/journal.c | 15 ++++++--------- fs/jbd2/recovery.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c~jbd2-replace-ll_rw_block +++ a/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -1893,19 +1893,16 @@ static int journal_get_superblock(journa { struct buffer_head *bh; journal_superblock_t *sb; - int err = -EIO; + int err; bh = journal->j_sb_buffer; J_ASSERT(bh != NULL); - if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, 1, &bh); - wait_on_buffer(bh); - if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { - printk(KERN_ERR - "JBD2: IO error reading journal superblock\n"); - goto out; - } + err = bh_read(bh, 0); + if (err < 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR + "JBD2: IO error reading journal superblock\n"); + goto out; } if (buffer_verified(bh)) --- a/fs/jbd2/recovery.c~jbd2-replace-ll_rw_block +++ a/fs/jbd2/recovery.c @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int do_readahead(journal_t *journ if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && !buffer_locked(bh)) { bufs[nbufs++] = bh; if (nbufs == MAXBUF) { - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, nbufs, bufs); + bh_readahead_batch(nbufs, bufs, 0); journal_brelse_array(bufs, nbufs); nbufs = 0; } @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static int do_readahead(journal_t *journ } if (nbufs) - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, nbufs, bufs); + bh_readahead_batch(nbufs, bufs, 0); err = 0; failed: @@ -152,9 +152,14 @@ static int jread(struct buffer_head **bh return -ENOMEM; if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { - /* If this is a brand new buffer, start readahead. - Otherwise, we assume we are already reading it. */ - if (!buffer_req(bh)) + /* + * If this is a brand new buffer, start readahead. + * Otherwise, we assume we are already reading it. + */ + bool need_readahead = !buffer_req(bh); + + bh_read_nowait(bh, 0); + if (need_readahead) do_readahead(journal, offset); wait_on_buffer(bh); } @@ -687,7 +692,6 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journa mark_buffer_dirty(nbh); BUFFER_TRACE(nbh, "marking uptodate"); ++info->nr_replays; - /* ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &nbh); */ unlock_buffer(nbh); brelse(obh); brelse(nbh); _ 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