Re: [PATCH 6.12 634/666] netfs: fix error handling in netfs_extract_user_iter()

Harshit Mogalapalli <[email protected]> Sat, 23 May 2026 01:53:15 +0530
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.netfs,dev.linux.lists.patches,org.kernel.vger.linux-cifs,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Greg/Sasha,

On 20/05/26 21:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]>
> 
> commit 0aad5704c6b4d14007d4eab15883e8524e4310f4 upstream.
> 
> In netfs_extract_user_iter(), if iov_iter_extract_pages() failed to
> extract user pages, bail out on -ENOMEM, otherwise return the error
> code only if @npages == 0, allowing short DIO reads and writes to be
> issued.
> 
> This fixes mmapstress02 from LTP tests against CIFS.
> 
> Fixes: 85dd2c8ff368 ("netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator")
> Reported-by: Xiaoli Feng <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
>   fs/netfs/iterator.c |   13 ++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/fs/netfs/iterator.c
> +++ b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
>    *
>    * Extract the page fragments from the given amount of the source iterator and
>    * build up a second iterator that refers to all of those bits.  This allows
> - * the original iterator to disposed of.
> + * the original iterator to be disposed of.
>    *
>    * @extraction_flags can have ITER_ALLOW_P2PDMA set to request peer-to-peer DMA be
>    * allowed on the pages extracted.
> @@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct i
>   		ret = iov_iter_extract_pages(orig, &pages, count,
>   					     max_pages - npages, extraction_flags,
>   					     &offset);
> -		if (ret < 0) {
> -			pr_err("Couldn't get user pages (rc=%zd)\n", ret);
> +		if (unlikely(ret <= 0)) {
> +			ret = ret ?: -EIO;
>   			break;
>   		}
>   
> @@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct i
>   		npages += cur_npages;
>   	}
>   
> +	if (ret < 0 && (ret == -ENOMEM || npages == 0)) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < npages; i++)
> +			unpin_user_page(bv[i].bv_page);
> +		kvfree(bv);
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +

I have run an AI assisted backport review and it spotted an issue: I
have taken a look and the issues goes like:

Upstream has:



ssize_t ret = 0;

...
if (ret < 0 && (ret == -ENOMEM || npages == 0)) {
         for (i = 0; i < npages; i++)
                 unpin_user_page(bv[i].bv_page);
         kvfree(bv);
         return ret;
}

6.12.y has:

ssize_t ret;

...
if (ret < 0 && (ret == -ENOMEM || npages == 0)) {
         for (i = 0; i < npages; i++)
                 unpin_user_page(bv[i].bv_page);
         kvfree(bv);
         return ret;
}

I think 6.12.y misses commit: 7e3d8db899d5 ("netfs: Fix potential 
uninitialised var in netfs_extract_user_iter()") so backport might not 
be complete, thoughts ?

thanks,
Harshit


>   	iov_iter_bvec(new, orig->data_source, bv, npages, orig_len - count);
>   	return npages;
>   }
> 
> 
>