FAILED: patch "[PATCH] smb: client: require stable pages for SMB compression" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 8667061cf99394526dd9c0ea2662e6bbc7ae7848
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026110441-ethically-speech-8e44@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 8667061cf99394526dd9c0ea2662e6bbc7ae7848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:33:41 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] smb: client: require stable pages for SMB compression

Like signing, SMB compression builds the write payload from the pagecache
folios: should_compress() lets a write request through and smb_compress()
compresses those folios on the way to the socket.  If a buffered write
mutates a folio while a write subrequest is still in flight, the compressed
bytes no longer correspond to a consistent view of the data, and the server
silently stores corrupted contents - worse than the signed case, which at
least fails loudly with STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED.

Mark the mapping for stable writes when a write may be compressed, i.e. the
same condition should_compress() tests (compression negotiated and the share
allows compressed data), so netfs_perform_write() waits for writeback to
complete before modifying an in-flight folio.

Fixes: f046d71e84e1 ("smb: client: insert compression check/call on write requests")
Suggested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/inode.c b/fs/smb/client/inode.c
index 43a2d7982488..d94007deb548 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/inode.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/inode.c
@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ static void cifs_set_ops(struct inode *inode)
 		else
 			inode->i_data.a_ops = &cifs_addr_ops;
 		mapping_set_large_folios(inode->i_mapping);
-		if (tcon->ses->server->sign)
+		if (tcon->ses->server->sign ||
+		    (tcon->ses->server->compression.enabled &&
+		     (tcon->share_flags & SMB2_SHAREFLAG_COMPRESS_DATA)))
 			mapping_set_stable_writes(inode->i_mapping);
 		break;
 	case S_IFDIR: