[PATCH 7.1 1411/2077] netfs: Fix barriering when walking subrequest list

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:18:04 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.netfs,dev.linux.lists.patches,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
7.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: David Howells <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 5c6ce05e406520290c1d89da97fb3cd70c09137d ]

Fix the barriering used when walking the subrequest list in retry as
there's a possibility of seeing a subreq that's just been added by the
application thread.

Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading")
Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260608145432.681865-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 fs/netfs/read_retry.c  | 7 ++++++-
 fs/netfs/write_retry.c | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/read_retry.c b/fs/netfs/read_retry.c
index f59a70f3a086b4..2b42758e01ec94 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/read_retry.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/read_retry.c
@@ -98,7 +98,12 @@ static void netfs_retry_read_subrequests(struct netfs_io_request *rreq)
 			goto abandon;
 		}
 
-		list_for_each_continue(next, &stream->subrequests) {
+		for (;;) {
+			/* Read pointer to subreq before reading subreq state. */
+			next = smp_load_acquire(&next->next);
+			if (next == &stream->subrequests)
+				break;
+
 			subreq = list_entry(next, struct netfs_io_subrequest, rreq_link);
 			if (subreq->start + subreq->transferred != start + len ||
 			    test_bit(NETFS_SREQ_BOUNDARY, &subreq->flags) ||
diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_retry.c b/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
index 32735abfa03f06..058bc7a166a59f 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
@@ -72,7 +72,12 @@ static void netfs_retry_write_stream(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 		    !test_bit(NETFS_SREQ_NEED_RETRY, &from->flags))
 			return;
 
-		list_for_each_continue(next, &stream->subrequests) {
+		for (;;) {
+			/* Read pointer to subreq before reading subreq state. */
+			next = smp_load_acquire(&next->next);
+			if (next == &stream->subrequests)
+				break;
+
 			subreq = list_entry(next, struct netfs_io_subrequest, rreq_link);
 			if (subreq->start + subreq->transferred != start + len ||
 			    test_bit(NETFS_SREQ_BOUNDARY, &subreq->flags) ||
-- 
2.53.0