From: Huiwen He <huiwen.he@linux.dev>
To: smfrench@gmail.com, linkinjeon@kernel.org, pc@manguebit.org,
ronniesahlberg@gmail.com, sprasad@microsoft.com, tom@talpey.com,
bharathsm@microsoft.com, senozhatsky@chromium.org,
dhowells@redhat.com, metze@samba.org, chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] smb/client: reduce fallocate zero buffer allocation
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:46:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260623024619.1360127-7-huiwen.he@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260623024619.1360127-1-huiwen.he@linux.dev>
From: Huiwen He <hehuiwen@kylinos.cn>
The fallocate emulation allocates a 1 MiB zero-filled buffer even though
each SMB2_write request is limited to SMB2_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE, which is
64 KiB. A high-order 1 MiB allocation is more likely to fail on a
fragmented system.
Allocate only the smaller of the requested range and
SMB2_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE, and reuse that zero-filled buffer for every write
request. Also reject a successful write that makes no progress to avoid
looping indefinitely.
This reduces the contiguous allocation required by fallocate emulation
without changing the written data or range semantics.
Signed-off-by: Huiwen He <hehuiwen@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
---
fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c
index 8b931581870a..4cab652d9696 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c
@@ -3543,7 +3543,7 @@ static int smb3_simple_fallocate_write_range(unsigned int xid,
char *buf)
{
struct cifs_io_parms io_parms = {0};
- int nbytes;
+ unsigned int nbytes;
int rc = 0;
struct kvec iov[2];
@@ -3564,9 +3564,10 @@ static int smb3_simple_fallocate_write_range(unsigned int xid,
rc = SMB2_write(xid, &io_parms, &nbytes, iov, 1);
if (rc)
break;
+ if (!nbytes)
+ return -EIO;
if (nbytes > len)
return -EINVAL;
- buf += nbytes;
off += nbytes;
len -= nbytes;
}
@@ -3595,7 +3596,7 @@ static int smb3_simple_fallocate_range(unsigned int xid,
if (rc)
goto out;
- buf = kzalloc(1024 * 1024, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kzalloc(min_t(loff_t, len, SMB2_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL);
if (buf == NULL) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-23 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-23 2:46 [PATCH 0/7] smb/client: fix fallocate allocation handling Huiwen He
2026-06-23 2:46 ` [PATCH 1/7] smb/client: name the default fallocate mode Huiwen He
2026-06-23 3:50 ` Steve French
2026-06-23 2:46 ` [PATCH 2/7] smb/client: handle smb2_set_sparse() failure in EOF-extending fallocate Huiwen He
2026-06-23 2:46 ` [PATCH 3/7] smb/client: handle smb2_set_sparse() failure in non-extending fallocate Huiwen He
2026-06-23 2:46 ` [PATCH 4/7] smb/client: do not account EOF extension as allocation Huiwen He
2026-06-23 2:46 ` [PATCH 5/7] smb/client: verify allocation after EOF-extending fallocate Huiwen He
2026-06-23 2:46 ` Huiwen He [this message]
2026-06-23 2:46 ` [PATCH 7/7] smb/client: emulate small fallocate ranges at EOF Huiwen He
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