Re: [PATCH] filemap: Init the newly allocated folio memory to 0 for the filemap

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 04:12:24PM +0800, Lizhi Xu wrote:
> > 	* ->read_folio() had been called, claimed to have succeeded and
> > yet it had left something in range 0..inode->i_size-1 uninitialized.
> > Again, a bug, this time in ->read_folio() instance.
> read_folio, have you noticed that the file value was passed to read_folio is NULL? 
> fs/namei.c
> const char *page_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode
> ...
> 5272  read_mapping_page(mapping, 0, NULL);
> 
> So, Therefore, no matter what, the value of folio will not be initialized by file
> in read_folio. 

What does struct file have to do with anything?  What it asks is the
first page of the address space of inode in question.

file argument of ->read_folio() is not how an instance determines which
filesystem object it's dealing with.  _That_ is determined by the
address space (mapping) the folio had been attached to.  For some
filesystems that is not enough - they need an information established
at open() time.  Those ->read_folio() instances can pick such stuff
from the file argument - and those obviously cannot be used with
page_get_link(), since for symlinks there's no opened files, etc.

Most of the instances do not use the 'file' argument.  In particular,
squashfs_symlink_read_folio() doesn't even look at it.

It would probably be less confusing if the arguments of ->read_folio()
went in the opposite order, but that's a separate story.  In any case,
"which filesystem object" is determined by folio->mapping, "which
offset in that filesystem object" comes from folio_pos(folio), not
that it realistically could be anything other than 0 in case of a symlink
(they can't be more than 4Kb long, so the first page will cover the
entire thing).