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Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:47:02 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 6Q1OkKBWMNewwDpzF46dXQ-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: 6Q1OkKBWMNewwDpzF46dXQ_1774522020 Received: from mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.93]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-03.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1A2819560B4; Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:46:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from warthog.procyon.org.com (unknown [10.44.33.121]) by mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F741800673; Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:46:53 +0000 (UTC) From: David Howells To: Christian Brauner , Matthew Wilcox , Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Howells , Paulo Alcantara , Jens Axboe , Leon Romanovsky , Steve French , ChenXiaoSong , Marc Dionne , Eric Van Hensbergen , Dominique Martinet , Ilya Dryomov , Trond Myklebust , netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, v9fs@lists.linux.dev, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paulo Alcantara Subject: [PATCH 06/26] netfs: Fix the handling of stream->front by removing it Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:45:21 +0000 Message-ID: <20260326104544.509518-7-dhowells@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20260326104544.509518-1-dhowells@redhat.com> References: <20260326104544.509518-1-dhowells@redhat.com> X-Mailing-List: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.93 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: Z2G7enY475whsThX_6d6ARXOtqjyr328LZ8vPVZjKTQ_1774522020 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; x-default=true The netfs_io_stream::front member is meant to point to the subrequest currently being collected on a stream, but it isn't actually used this way by direct write (which mostly ignores it). However, there's a tracepoint which looks at it. Further, stream->front is actually redundant with stream->subrequests.next. Fix the potential problem in the direct code by just removing the member and using stream->subrequests.next instead, thereby also simplifying the code. Fixes: a0b4c7a49137 ("netfs: Fix unbuffered/DIO writes to dispatch subrequests in strict sequence") Reported-by: Paulo Alcantara Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org --- fs/netfs/buffered_read.c | 3 +-- fs/netfs/direct_read.c | 3 +-- fs/netfs/direct_write.c | 1 - fs/netfs/read_collect.c | 4 ++-- fs/netfs/read_single.c | 1 - fs/netfs/write_collect.c | 4 ++-- fs/netfs/write_issue.c | 3 +-- include/linux/netfs.h | 1 - include/trace/events/netfs.h | 8 ++++---- 9 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c index 88a0d801525f..a8c0d86118c5 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c +++ b/fs/netfs/buffered_read.c @@ -171,9 +171,8 @@ static void netfs_queue_read(struct netfs_io_request *rreq, spin_lock(&rreq->lock); list_add_tail(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests); if (list_is_first(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests)) { - stream->front = subreq; if (!stream->active) { - stream->collected_to = stream->front->start; + stream->collected_to = subreq->start; /* Store list pointers before active flag */ smp_store_release(&stream->active, true); } diff --git a/fs/netfs/direct_read.c b/fs/netfs/direct_read.c index a498ee8d6674..f72e6da88cca 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/direct_read.c +++ b/fs/netfs/direct_read.c @@ -71,9 +71,8 @@ static int netfs_dispatch_unbuffered_reads(struct netfs_io_request *rreq) spin_lock(&rreq->lock); list_add_tail(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests); if (list_is_first(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests)) { - stream->front = subreq; if (!stream->active) { - stream->collected_to = stream->front->start; + stream->collected_to = subreq->start; /* Store list pointers before active flag */ smp_store_release(&stream->active, true); } diff --git a/fs/netfs/direct_write.c b/fs/netfs/direct_write.c index 4d9760e36c11..f9ab69de3e29 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/direct_write.c +++ b/fs/netfs/direct_write.c @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ static int netfs_unbuffered_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq) netfs_prepare_write(wreq, stream, wreq->start + wreq->transferred); subreq = stream->construct; stream->construct = NULL; - stream->front = NULL; } /* Check if (re-)preparation failed. */ diff --git a/fs/netfs/read_collect.c b/fs/netfs/read_collect.c index 137f0e28a44c..e5f6665b3341 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/read_collect.c +++ b/fs/netfs/read_collect.c @@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ static void netfs_collect_read_results(struct netfs_io_request *rreq) * in progress. The issuer thread may be adding stuff to the tail * whilst we're doing this. */ - front = READ_ONCE(stream->front); + front = list_first_entry_or_null(&stream->subrequests, + struct netfs_io_subrequest, rreq_link); while (front) { size_t transferred; @@ -301,7 +302,6 @@ static void netfs_collect_read_results(struct netfs_io_request *rreq) list_del_init(&front->rreq_link); front = list_first_entry_or_null(&stream->subrequests, struct netfs_io_subrequest, rreq_link); - stream->front = front; spin_unlock(&rreq->lock); netfs_put_subrequest(remove, notes & ABANDON_SREQ ? diff --git a/fs/netfs/read_single.c b/fs/netfs/read_single.c index 8e6264f62a8f..d0e23bc42445 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/read_single.c +++ b/fs/netfs/read_single.c @@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ static int netfs_single_dispatch_read(struct netfs_io_request *rreq) spin_lock(&rreq->lock); list_add_tail(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests); trace_netfs_sreq(subreq, netfs_sreq_trace_added); - stream->front = subreq; /* Store list pointers before active flag */ smp_store_release(&stream->active, true); spin_unlock(&rreq->lock); diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_collect.c b/fs/netfs/write_collect.c index 83eb3dc1adf8..b194447f4b11 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/write_collect.c +++ b/fs/netfs/write_collect.c @@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ static void netfs_collect_write_results(struct netfs_io_request *wreq) if (!smp_load_acquire(&stream->active)) continue; - front = stream->front; + front = list_first_entry_or_null(&stream->subrequests, + struct netfs_io_subrequest, rreq_link); while (front) { trace_netfs_collect_sreq(wreq, front); //_debug("sreq [%x] %llx %zx/%zx", @@ -279,7 +280,6 @@ static void netfs_collect_write_results(struct netfs_io_request *wreq) list_del_init(&front->rreq_link); front = list_first_entry_or_null(&stream->subrequests, struct netfs_io_subrequest, rreq_link); - stream->front = front; spin_unlock(&wreq->lock); netfs_put_subrequest(remove, notes & SAW_FAILURE ? diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c index 437268f65640..2db688f94125 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c +++ b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c @@ -206,9 +206,8 @@ void netfs_prepare_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq, spin_lock(&wreq->lock); list_add_tail(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests); if (list_is_first(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests)) { - stream->front = subreq; if (!stream->active) { - stream->collected_to = stream->front->start; + stream->collected_to = subreq->start; /* Write list pointers before active flag */ smp_store_release(&stream->active, true); } diff --git a/include/linux/netfs.h b/include/linux/netfs.h index 72ee7d210a74..ba17ac5bf356 100644 --- a/include/linux/netfs.h +++ b/include/linux/netfs.h @@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ struct netfs_io_stream { void (*issue_write)(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq); /* Collection tracking */ struct list_head subrequests; /* Contributory I/O operations */ - struct netfs_io_subrequest *front; /* Op being collected */ unsigned long long collected_to; /* Position we've collected results to */ size_t transferred; /* The amount transferred from this stream */ unsigned short error; /* Aggregate error for the stream */ diff --git a/include/trace/events/netfs.h b/include/trace/events/netfs.h index 2d366be46a1c..cbe28211106c 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/netfs.h +++ b/include/trace/events/netfs.h @@ -740,19 +740,19 @@ TRACE_EVENT(netfs_collect_stream, __field(unsigned int, wreq) __field(unsigned char, stream) __field(unsigned long long, collected_to) - __field(unsigned long long, front) + __field(unsigned long long, issued_to) ), TP_fast_assign( __entry->wreq = wreq->debug_id; __entry->stream = stream->stream_nr; __entry->collected_to = stream->collected_to; - __entry->front = stream->front ? stream->front->start : UINT_MAX; + __entry->issued_to = atomic64_read(&wreq->issued_to); ), - TP_printk("R=%08x[%x:] cto=%llx frn=%llx", + TP_printk("R=%08x[%x:] cto=%llx ito=%llx", __entry->wreq, __entry->stream, - __entry->collected_to, __entry->front) + __entry->collected_to, __entry->issued_to) ); TRACE_EVENT(netfs_folioq,