Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 5 authors, 2023-02-23

Re: [PATCH v2 18/18] NFS: Remove unnecessary check in nfs_read_folio()

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2023-02-23 13:23:04

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:33:51PM -0500, trondmy@kernel.org wrote:
From: Trond Myklebust <redacted>

All the callers are expected to supply a valid struct file argument, so
there is no need for the NULL check.
Ummm.  Not sure that's true.  Look at this path:

mapping_read_folio_gfp(mapping, index, gfp)
do_read_cache_folio(mapping, index, NULL, NULL, gfp)
filemap_read_folio(NULL, mapping->a_ops->read_folio, folio)

It could well be that nobody does this to an NFS file!  The places where
I see this called tend to be filesystems doing it to block devices,
or filesystems doing it to their own files (eg reading a journal file
or quota file)

But I'm suspicious of static match tools claiming it can't ever happen,
and I'd like more details please.  I can't find the original report.
Also, it would have been nice to be cc'd on the folio conversion patches.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <redacted>
---
 fs/nfs/read.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/read.c b/fs/nfs/read.c
index bf4154f9b48c..c380cff4108e 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/read.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/read.c
@@ -355,13 +355,7 @@ int nfs_read_folio(struct file *file, struct folio *folio)
 	if (NFS_STALE(inode))
 		goto out_unlock;
 
-	if (file == NULL) {
-		ret = -EBADF;
-		desc.ctx = nfs_find_open_context(inode, NULL, FMODE_READ);
-		if (desc.ctx == NULL)
-			goto out_unlock;
-	} else
-		desc.ctx = get_nfs_open_context(nfs_file_open_context(file));
+	desc.ctx = get_nfs_open_context(nfs_file_open_context(file));
 
 	xchg(&desc.ctx->error, 0);
 	nfs_pageio_init_read(&desc.pgio, inode, false,
-- 
2.39.0
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