The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: replace ll_rw_block() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is ocfs2-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/ocfs2-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: ocfs2: replace ll_rw_block() Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:34:59 +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 ocfs2. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-9-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/ocfs2/aops.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/super.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c~ocfs2-replace-ll_rw_block +++ a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c @@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ int ocfs2_map_page_blocks(struct page *p !buffer_new(bh) && ocfs2_should_read_blk(inode, page, block_start) && (block_start < from || block_end > to)) { - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, 1, &bh); + bh_read_nowait(bh, 0); *wait_bh++=bh; } --- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c~ocfs2-replace-ll_rw_block +++ a/fs/ocfs2/super.c @@ -1764,9 +1764,7 @@ static int ocfs2_get_sector(struct super if (!buffer_dirty(*bh)) clear_buffer_uptodate(*bh); unlock_buffer(*bh); - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, 1, bh); - wait_on_buffer(*bh); - if (!buffer_uptodate(*bh)) { + if (bh_read(*bh, 0) < 0) { mlog_errno(-EIO); brelse(*bh); *bh = NULL; _ 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