The patch titled Subject: ntfs3: replace ll_rw_block() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is ntfs3-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/ntfs3-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: ntfs3: replace ll_rw_block() Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:34:58 +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 ntfs_get_block_vbo(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-8-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/ntfs3/inode.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c~ntfs3-replace-ll_rw_block +++ a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c @@ -630,12 +630,9 @@ static noinline int ntfs_get_block_vbo(s bh->b_size = block_size; off = vbo & (PAGE_SIZE - 1); set_bh_page(bh, page, off); - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, 1, &bh); - wait_on_buffer(bh); - if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { - err = -EIO; + err = bh_read(bh, 0); + if (err < 0) goto out; - } zero_user_segment(page, off + voff, off + block_size); } } _ 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