+ zram-reject-zero-size-dictionary.patch added to mm-new branch

The patch titled
     Subject: zram: reject zero-size dictionary
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     zram-reject-zero-size-dictionary.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/zram-reject-zero-size-dictionary.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Haoqin Huang <[email protected]>
Subject: zram: reject zero-size dictionary
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 17:38:38 +0800

kernel_read_file_from_path() already rejects empty files (i_size <= 0) and
returns -EINVAL, but the current implementation only checks for sz < 0
without logging any information.  Use sz == 0 to reject the zero-size case
and print distinct error messages for each failure type.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Haoqin Huang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rongwei Wang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Cc: David Sterba <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Terrell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c~zram-reject-zero-size-dictionary
+++ a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -1700,8 +1700,16 @@ static int comp_params_store(struct zram
 						INT_MAX,
 						NULL,
 						READING_POLICY);
-		if (sz < 0)
+		if (sz < 0) {
+			pr_err("failed to load dictionary %s (err=%zd)\n",
+			       dict_path, sz);
+			return sz;
+		}
+		if (sz == 0) {
+			pr_err("failed to load dictionary %s (empty file)\n",
+			       dict_path);
 			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 	}
 
 	zram->params[prio].dict_sz = sz;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

zram-do-not-release-zstd-global-params-from-error-paths.patch
zram-reject-zero-size-dictionary.patch
zram-add-pr_fmt-to-backend-files.patch
zram-validate-parameters-in-each-backends-setup_params.patch
zram-reset-per-priority-params-when-changing-algorithm-before-init.patch