Re: [PATCH] cifs: Fix non-availability of dedup breaking generic/304

[Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>]

added missing Signed-off-by line (and also for the two previous
patches from David) and added Cc: stable and tentatively merged into
cifs-2.6.git for-next pending additional testing

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:02 AM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Deduplication isn't supported on cifs, but cifs doesn't reject it, instead
> treating it as extent duplication/cloning.  This can cause generic/304 to go
> silly and run for hours on end.
>
> Fix cifs to indicate EOPNOTSUPP if REMAP_FILE_DEDUP is set in
> ->remap_file_range().
>
> Note that it's unclear whether or not commit b073a08016a1 is meant to cause
> cifs to return an error if REMAP_FILE_DEDUP.
>
> Fixes: b073a08016a1 ("cifs: fix that return -EINVAL when do dedupe operation")
> Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
> cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
> cc: Xiaoli Feng <fengxiaoli0714@gmail.com>
> cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
> cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> cc: Darrick Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3876191.1701555260@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
> ---
>  fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c b/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
> index 4d8927b57776..96a65cf9b5ec 100644
> --- a/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
> +++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
> @@ -1276,7 +1276,9 @@ static loff_t cifs_remap_file_range(struct file *src_file, loff_t off,
>         unsigned int xid;
>         int rc;
>
> -       if (remap_flags & ~(REMAP_FILE_DEDUP | REMAP_FILE_ADVISORY))
> +       if (remap_flags & REMAP_FILE_DEDUP)
> +               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +       if (remap_flags & ~REMAP_FILE_ADVISORY)
>                 return -EINVAL;
>
>         cifs_dbg(FYI, "clone range\n");
>
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve