linux-kernel - [PATCH] cachefiles: Set the max subreq size for cache writes to MAX_RW

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Message-ID: <1599005.1721398742@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:19:02 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
    netfs@...ts.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
    linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] cachefiles: Set the max subreq size for cache writes to MAX_RW_COUNT

Set the maximum size of a subrequest that writes to cachefiles to be
MAX_RW_COUNT so that we don't overrun the maximum write we can make to the
backing filesystem.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
cc: netfs@...ts.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
---
 fs/cachefiles/io.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/io.c b/fs/cachefiles/io.c
index e667dbcd20e8..a91acd03ee12 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/io.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/io.c
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ static void cachefiles_prepare_write_subreq(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq)
 
 	_enter("W=%x[%x] %llx", wreq->debug_id, subreq->debug_index, subreq->start);
 
-	subreq->max_len = ULONG_MAX;
+	subreq->max_len = MAX_RW_COUNT;
 	subreq->max_nr_segs = BIO_MAX_VECS;
 
 	if (!cachefiles_cres_file(cres)) {