6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> commit 0db1d53937fafa8bb96e077375691e16902f4899 upstream. The callers of vfs_iter_write() are required to hold file_start_write(). file_start_write() is a no-op for the S_ISBLK() case, but it is really needed when the backing file is a regular file. We are going to move file_{start,end}_write() into vfs_iter_write(), but we need to fix this first, so that the fix could be backported to stable kernels. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZV8ETIpM+wZa33B5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231123092000.2665902-1-amir73il@xxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_file.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/target/target_core_file.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_file.c @@ -332,11 +332,13 @@ static int fd_do_rw(struct se_cmd *cmd, } iov_iter_bvec(&iter, is_write, bvec, sgl_nents, len); - if (is_write) + if (is_write) { + file_start_write(fd); ret = vfs_iter_write(fd, &iter, &pos, 0); - else + file_end_write(fd); + } else { ret = vfs_iter_read(fd, &iter, &pos, 0); - + } if (is_write) { if (ret < 0 || ret != data_length) { pr_err("%s() write returned %d\n", __func__, ret); @@ -467,7 +469,9 @@ fd_execute_write_same(struct se_cmd *cmd } iov_iter_bvec(&iter, ITER_SOURCE, bvec, nolb, len); + file_start_write(fd_dev->fd_file); ret = vfs_iter_write(fd_dev->fd_file, &iter, &pos, 0); + file_end_write(fd_dev->fd_file); kfree(bvec); if (ret < 0 || ret != len) {