Re: [PATCH 6/6] fuse: convert direct IO paths to use FOLL_PIN

On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 at 10:34, [off-list ref] wrote:

From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>

Convert the fuse filesystem to support the new iov_iter_get_pages()
behavior. That routine now invokes pin_user_pages_fast(), which means
that such pages must be released via unpin_user_page(), rather than via
put_page().

This commit also removes any possibility of kernel pages being handled,
in the fuse_get_user_pages() call. Although this may seem like a steep
price to pay, Christoph Hellwig actually recommended it a few years ago
for nearly the same situation [1].

This might work for O_DIRECT, but fuse has this mode of operation
which turns normal "buffered" I/O into direct I/O.  And that in turn
will break execve of such files.

So AFAICS we need to keep kvec handing in some way.

Thanks,
Miklos