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From: John Garry <john.garry@linux.dev>
To: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>,
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@kernel.org>
Cc: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/9] block: fail a short atomic pin in bio_iov_iter_get_pages()
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:40:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82978d5c-3e08-48e9-bf0a-7913e1cd0507@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261009-blkdev-fixes-v6-5-307939c387df@columbia.edu>

On 10/9/26 17:50, Tal Zussman wrote:
> On a partial page pin, __blkdev_direct_IO_simple() and
> __blkdev_direct_IO_async() submit what was pinned with REQ_ATOMIC set
> and leave the rest to the buffered fallback, tearing an IOCB_ATOMIC
> write.
> 
> This can be triggered deterministically. A 16K pwritev2(RWF_ATOMIC)
> whose last page is PROT_NONE, on a scsi_debug device with atomic_wr=1,
> completes short with only three of the four pages written, violating
> RWF_ATOMIC semantics.
> 
> Make bio_iov_iter_get_pages() release the pins and return -EINVAL when
> a REQ_ATOMIC bio doesn't cover the whole iterator, since an atomic
> write is submitted as a single bio and a short one would be torn. That
> covers iomap as well, where a partially unmapped buffer could trip the
> WARN_ON_ONCE() in iomap_dio_bio_iter_one(). The async block device path
> currently sets REQ_ATOMIC after pinning, so set it before, and move
> REQ_NOWAIT along with it.
> 
> Fixes: caf336f81b3a ("block: Add fops atomic write support")
> Reported-by: Sashiko<sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
> Link:https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260802-blkdev-fixes-v1-0- 
> a82fc549fd74%40columbia.edu?part=2
> Assisted-by:Claude:claude-fable-5
> Reviewed-by: John Garry<john.garry@linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke<hare@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman<tz2294@columbia.edu>

I think that you can now remove the REQ_ATOMIC check after the 
iomap_dio_bio_iter_one() -> bio_iov_iter_get_pages() call also; however, 
considering the trees, it's better to wait until 7.4-rc1 is released.

Thanks,
John

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-13  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-09 16:50 [PATCH v6 0/9] block device fixes for large block sizes, IOCB_NOWAIT, and direct I/O Tal Zussman
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 1/9] block: use iomap_dirty_folio for block devices Tal Zussman
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 2/9] block: take i_rwsem for the direct I/O write fallback Tal Zussman
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 3/9] block: take i_rwsem for the splice read path Tal Zussman
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 4/9] block: honor IOCB_NOWAIT in the block device buffered " Tal Zussman
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 5/9] block: fail a short atomic pin in bio_iov_iter_get_pages() Tal Zussman
2026-10-13  8:40   ` John Garry [this message]
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 6/9] block: don't fall back to buffered I/O for atomic writes Tal Zussman
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 7/9] iomap: reject atomic writes in iomap_file_buffered_write() Tal Zussman
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 8/9] block: unpin all pages of a bvec in bio_iov_iter_align_down() Tal Zussman
2026-10-09 16:50 ` [PATCH v6 9/9] block: remove dead metadata handling from the async direct I/O path Tal Zussman
2026-10-12 12:02 ` [PATCH v6 0/9] block device fixes for large block sizes, IOCB_NOWAIT, and direct I/O Christoph Hellwig
2026-10-12 18:51 ` Jens Axboe

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