Re: [PATCH] netfs: Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:52 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> On cifs, "DIO reads" (specified by O_DIRECT) need to be differentiated from
> "unbuffered reads" (specified by cache=none in the mount parameters).  The
> difference is flagged in the protocol and the server may behave
> differently: Windows Server will, for example, mandate that DIO reads are
> block aligned.
> 
> Fix this by adding a NETFS_UNBUFFERED_READ to differentiate this from
> NETFS_DIO_READ, parallelling the write differentiation that already exists.
> cifs will then do the right thing.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-6.16.netfs branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-6.16.netfs branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-6.16.netfs

[1/1] netfs: Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/db26d62d79e4