netdev - Re: [PATCH] 9p/trans_fd: always use O

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Message-ID: <Yz96//Gf4tCteJLm@codewreck.org>
Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2022 10:03:59 +0900
From:   Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
To:     Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>
Cc:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
        syzbot <syzbot+8b41a1365f1106fd0f33@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p/trans_fd: always use O_NONBLOCK read/write

Christian Schoenebeck wrote on Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 04:55:23PM +0200:
> > diff --git a/net/9p/trans_fd.c b/net/9p/trans_fd.c
> > index e758978b44be..9870597da583 100644
> > --- a/net/9p/trans_fd.c
> > +++ b/net/9p/trans_fd.c
> > @@ -821,11 +821,13 @@ static int p9_fd_open(struct p9_client *client, int
> > rfd, int wfd) goto out_free_ts;
> >  	if (!(ts->rd->f_mode & FMODE_READ))
> >  		goto out_put_rd;
> > +	ts->rd->f_flags |= O_NONBLOCK;
> 
> ... I think this deserves a short comment like:
> 
>     /* prevent hung task with pipes */

Good point, I've sneaked in this comment:
    /* prevent workers from hanging on IO when fd is a pipe */

https://github.com/martinetd/linux/commit/ef575281b21e9a34dfae544a187c6aac2ae424a9


> Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>

Thank you!

--
Dominique