From: Mengmeng Zhao <mengmeng.zhao@linux.dev>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>,
Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>,
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Subject: [RFC 3/6] dax: refuse dmabuf iterators in dax_iomap_rw()
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 14:58:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105065847.196540-4-mengmeng.zhao@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261105065847.196540-1-mengmeng.zhao@linux.dev>
From: Mengmeng Zhao <zhaomengmeng@kylinos.cn>
A dax access copies through the CPU linear address, which a device
mapping cannot provide. A dmabuf iterator reaching dax_iomap_rw()
splats a WARN_ON_ONCE from iterate_and_advance2() and fails the I/O
with EFAULT. Refuse it up front with -EOPNOTSUPP, as the generic
buffered copy paths already do.
Signed-off-by: Mengmeng Zhao <zhaomengmeng@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@kylinos.cn>
---
fs/dax.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 6ba50142eeb2..6ec08316aa6c 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -1759,6 +1759,10 @@ dax_iomap_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
if (!iomi.len)
return 0;
+ /* dax copies through the CPU, which a device mapping bypasses */
+ if (iov_iter_is_dmabuf_map(iter))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE) {
lockdep_assert_held_write(&iomi.inode->i_rwsem);
iomi.flags |= IOMAP_WRITE;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-05 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-05 6:58 [RFC 0/6] ext4: Add dma-buf read/write support Mengmeng Zhao
2026-11-05 6:58 ` [RFC 1/6] block: refuse a dma-buf bio that carries a crypto context Mengmeng Zhao
2026-11-06 10:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-09 2:51 ` Mengmeng Zhao
2026-11-05 6:58 ` [RFC 2/6] mm/filemap: refuse dmabuf iterators in the generic read/write copy paths Mengmeng Zhao
2026-11-06 10:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-09 2:54 ` Mengmeng Zhao
2026-11-05 6:58 ` Mengmeng Zhao [this message]
2026-11-05 6:58 ` [RFC 4/6] iomap: refuse dmabuf iterators in iomap_file_buffered_write() Mengmeng Zhao
2026-11-05 6:58 ` [RFC 5/6] iomap: refuse dmabuf iterators on contents-encrypted inodes Mengmeng Zhao
2026-11-06 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-11-09 2:56 ` Mengmeng Zhao
2026-11-05 6:58 ` [RFC 6/6] ext4: support dma-buf registered buffers for direct I/O Mengmeng Zhao
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