The patch titled Subject: ufs: replace ll_rw_block() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is ufs-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/ufs-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: ufs: replace ll_rw_block() Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:35:02 +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 ufs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901133505.2510834-12-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/ufs/balloc.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ufs/balloc.c~ufs-replace-ll_rw_block +++ a/fs/ufs/balloc.c @@ -295,14 +295,10 @@ static void ufs_change_blocknr(struct in if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) map_bh(bh, inode->i_sb, oldb + pos); - if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { - ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, 1, &bh); - wait_on_buffer(bh); - if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { - ufs_error(inode->i_sb, __func__, - "read of block failed\n"); - break; - } + if (bh_read(bh, 0) < 0) { + ufs_error(inode->i_sb, __func__, + "read of block failed\n"); + break; } UFSD(" change from %llu to %llu, pos %u\n", _ 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