linux-kernel - Re: [Linux-cachefs] [PATCH] fs/cachefiles: Drop superfluous readpages aops NULL check

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Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:48:32 -0400
From:   David Wysochanski <dwysocha@...hat.com>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-cachefs@...hat.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-cachefs] [PATCH] fs/cachefiles: Drop superfluous readpages
 aops NULL check

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:10 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
>
> After the recent actions to convert readpages aops to readahead, the
> NULL checks of readpages aops in cachefiles_read_or_alloc_page() may
> hit falsely.  More badly, it's an ASSERT() call, and this panics.
>
> Drop the superfluous NULL checks for fixing this regression.
>
> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208883
> BugLink: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175245
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v5.8
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> ---
>  fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c b/fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c
> index 3080cda9e824..5b4cee71fa32 100644
> --- a/fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c
> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c
> @@ -412,7 +412,6 @@ int cachefiles_read_or_alloc_page(struct fscache_retrieval *op,
>
>         inode = d_backing_inode(object->backer);
>         ASSERT(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode));
> -       ASSERT(inode->i_mapping->a_ops->readpages);
>
>         /* calculate the shift required to use bmap */
>         shift = PAGE_SHIFT - inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> @@ -712,7 +711,6 @@ int cachefiles_read_or_alloc_pages(struct fscache_retrieval *op,
>
>         inode = d_backing_inode(object->backer);
>         ASSERT(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode));
> -       ASSERT(inode->i_mapping->a_ops->readpages);
>
>         /* calculate the shift required to use bmap */
>         shift = PAGE_SHIFT - inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> --
> 2.16.4
>
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>

Agree this should go in as fscache (I am testing with NFS) becomes
unusable without it after 5.8.

It may have flown under the radar due to the in-progress FS-Cache rewrite.

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