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From: nspmangalore@gmail.com
To: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, smfrench@gmail.com, pc@manguebit.org,
	bharathsm@microsoft.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
	henrique.carvalho@suse.com, ematsumiya@suse.de
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 04/19] cifs: define variable sized buffer for querydir responses
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:37:49 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428160804.281745-4-sprasad@microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260428160804.281745-1-sprasad@microsoft.com>

From: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>

QueryDirectory responses today are stored in one of two fixed
sized buffers: smallbuf (448 bytes) or bigbuf (16KB). These are
borrowed from server struct and are not sufficient for large-sized
query dir operations.

With this change we will now define a new buffer type specifically
for cifs_search_info to hold variable sized responses. These will
be allocated by kmalloc and freed by kfree.

Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
---
 fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h |  2 ++
 fs/smb/client/file.c     |  2 ++
 fs/smb/client/readdir.c  |  2 ++
 fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c  | 14 +++++++++++---
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
index 709e96e077916..8d089ba08e3e5 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
@@ -1394,6 +1394,7 @@ struct cifs_search_info {
 	bool emptyDir:1;
 	bool unicode:1;
 	bool smallBuf:1; /* so we know which buf_release function to call */
+	bool is_dynamic_buf:1; /* dynamically allocated buffer - can be variable size */
 };
 
 #define ACL_NO_MODE	((umode_t)(-1))
@@ -1907,6 +1908,7 @@ enum cifs_find_flags {
 #define   CIFS_NO_BUFFER        0    /* Response buffer not returned */
 #define   CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER     1
 #define   CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER     2
+#define   CIFS_DYNAMIC_BUFFER   3    /* Dynamically allocated buffer */
 #define   CIFS_IOVEC            4    /* array of response buffers */
 
 /* Type of Request to SendReceive2 */
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/file.c b/fs/smb/client/file.c
index a69e05f86d7e2..6a1419d59ed5a 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/file.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/file.c
@@ -1546,6 +1546,8 @@ int cifs_closedir(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 		cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start = NULL;
 		if (cfile->srch_inf.smallBuf)
 			cifs_small_buf_release(buf);
+		else if (cfile->srch_inf.is_dynamic_buf)
+			kfree(buf);
 		else
 			cifs_buf_release(buf);
 	}
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/readdir.c b/fs/smb/client/readdir.c
index be22bbc4a65a0..b50efd9b9e1d2 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/readdir.c
@@ -732,6 +732,8 @@ find_cifs_entry(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, loff_t pos,
 			if (cfile->srch_inf.smallBuf)
 				cifs_small_buf_release(cfile->srch_inf.
 						ntwrk_buf_start);
+			else if (cfile->srch_inf.is_dynamic_buf)
+				kfree(cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start);
 			else
 				cifs_buf_release(cfile->srch_inf.
 						ntwrk_buf_start);
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
index 5188218c25be4..49dca84b169e6 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
@@ -5625,6 +5625,8 @@ smb2_parse_query_directory(struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
 	if (srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start) {
 		if (srch_inf->smallBuf)
 			cifs_small_buf_release(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);
+		else if (srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf)
+			kfree(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);
 		else
 			cifs_buf_release(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);
 	}
@@ -5644,12 +5646,18 @@ smb2_parse_query_directory(struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
 	cifs_dbg(FYI, "num entries %d last_index %lld srch start %p srch end %p\n",
 		 srch_inf->entries_in_buffer, srch_inf->index_of_last_entry,
 		 srch_inf->srch_entries_start, srch_inf->last_entry);
-	if (resp_buftype == CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER)
+	if (resp_buftype == CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER) {
 		srch_inf->smallBuf = false;
-	else if (resp_buftype == CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER)
+		srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = false;
+	} else if (resp_buftype == CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER) {
 		srch_inf->smallBuf = true;
-	else
+		srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = false;
+	} else if (resp_buftype == CIFS_DYNAMIC_BUFFER) {
+		srch_inf->smallBuf = false;
+		srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = true;
+	} else {
 		cifs_tcon_dbg(VFS, "Invalid search buffer type\n");
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-28 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-28 16:07 [PATCH v3 01/19] cifs: change_conf needs to be called for session setup nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] cifs: abort open_cached_dir if we don't request leases nspmangalore
2026-04-30 19:16   ` Steve French
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] cifs: invalidate cfid on unlink/rename/rmdir nspmangalore
2026-04-28 17:28   ` Paulo Alcantara
2026-05-01  9:00     ` Shyam Prasad N
2026-04-28 16:07 ` nspmangalore [this message]
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] cifs: optimize readdir for small directories nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] cifs: optimize readdir for larger directories nspmangalore
2026-04-28 17:00   ` Enzo Matsumiya
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] cifs: reorganize cached dir helpers nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] cifs: make cfid locks more granular nspmangalore
2026-04-28 17:18   ` Enzo Matsumiya
2026-05-01 10:20     ` Shyam Prasad N
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] cifs: query dir should reuse cfid even if not fully cached nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] cifs: back cached_dirents with page cache nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] cifs: in place changes to cached_dirents when dir lease is held nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] cifs: register a shrinker to manage cached_dirents nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] cifs: option to disable time-based eviction of cache nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] cifs: option to set unlimited number of cached dirs nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] cifs: allow dcache population to happen asynchronously nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] cifs: trace points for cached_dir operations nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] cifs: discard functions should not return failure nspmangalore
2026-04-28 17:27   ` Enzo Matsumiya
2026-05-01  8:19     ` Shyam Prasad N
2026-04-28 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] cifs: keep cfids in rbtree for efficient lookups nspmangalore
2026-04-28 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] cifs: invalidate cached_dirents if population aborted nspmangalore

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