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authorPaulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>2026-09-26 19:20:30 -0300
committerPaulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>2026-09-30 14:24:12 -0300
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netfs: zero the tail of a short DIO/unbuffered readgrafted
The buffered read collector zero-fills the tail of a short read that stops below the inode's i_size (netfs_clear_unread()), so a read that races an extending write still returns the expected number of bytes. The non-buffered collector path does no such thing: it just records how much was transferred. Add the same zero-fill for the non-buffered case, gated on NETFS_SREQ_CLEAR_TAIL: a subreq's source sets that flag when a short result from it is known to be safe to treat as a hole, as opposed to NETFS_SREQ_HIT_EOF, which means the read genuinely ran off the end of the file and should be reported short as-is. Only CLEAR_TAIL should zero-fill here; a real EOF must stay a real short read. No source currently sets CLEAR_TAIL on an unbuffered/DIO subrequest, so this is inert on its own -- a following change teaches cifs to set it in the one case that needs it. Fixes: e2d46f2ec332 ("netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item") Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com> Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/sched/task_stack.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <asm/syscall.h>
+
+static int collect_syscall(struct task_struct *target, struct syscall_info *info)
+{
+ unsigned long args[6] = { };
+ struct pt_regs *regs;
+
+ if (!try_get_task_stack(target)) {
+ /* Task has no stack, so the task isn't in a syscall. */
+ memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));
+ info->data.nr = -1;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ regs = task_pt_regs(target);
+ if (unlikely(!regs)) {
+ put_task_stack(target);
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
+
+ info->sp = user_stack_pointer(regs);
+ info->data.instruction_pointer = instruction_pointer(regs);
+
+ info->data.nr = syscall_get_nr(target, regs);
+ if (info->data.nr != -1L)
+ syscall_get_arguments(target, regs, args);
+
+ info->data.args[0] = args[0];
+ info->data.args[1] = args[1];
+ info->data.args[2] = args[2];
+ info->data.args[3] = args[3];
+ info->data.args[4] = args[4];
+ info->data.args[5] = args[5];
+
+ put_task_stack(target);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * task_current_syscall - Discover what a blocked task is doing.
+ * @target: thread to examine
+ * @info: structure with the following fields:
+ * .sp - filled with user stack pointer
+ * .data.nr - filled with system call number or -1
+ * .data.args - filled with @maxargs system call arguments
+ * .data.instruction_pointer - filled with user PC
+ *
+ * If @target is blocked in a system call, returns zero with @info.data.nr
+ * set to the call's number and @info.data.args filled in with its
+ * arguments. Registers not used for system call arguments may not be available
+ * and it is not kosher to use &struct user_regset calls while the system
+ * call is still in progress. Note we may get this result if @target
+ * has finished its system call but not yet returned to user mode, such
+ * as when it's stopped for signal handling or syscall exit tracing.
+ *
+ * If @target is blocked in the kernel during a fault or exception,
+ * returns zero with *@info.data.nr set to -1 and does not fill in
+ * @info.data.args. If so, it's now safe to examine @target using
+ * &struct user_regset get() calls as long as we're sure @target won't return
+ * to user mode.
+ *
+ * Returns -%EAGAIN if @target does not remain blocked.
+ */
+int task_current_syscall(struct task_struct *target, struct syscall_info *info)
+{
+ unsigned long ncsw;
+ unsigned int state;
+
+ if (target == current)
+ return collect_syscall(target, info);
+
+ state = READ_ONCE(target->__state);
+ if (unlikely(!state))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ ncsw = wait_task_inactive(target, state);
+ if (unlikely(!ncsw) ||
+ unlikely(collect_syscall(target, info)) ||
+ unlikely(wait_task_inactive(target, state) != ncsw))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ return 0;
+}