Re: [REGRESSION] 9pfs issues on 6.12-rc1

[Dominique Martinet]

Hi all,

sorry for the slow reply; I wasn't in Cc of most of the mails back in
October so this is a pain to navigate... Let me recap a bit:
- stuff started failing in 6.12-rc1
- David first posted "9p: Don't revert the I/O iterator after
reading"[1], which fixed the bug, but then found a "better" fix as
"iov_iter: Fix iov_iter_get_pages*() for folio_queue" [2] which was
merged instead (so the first patch was not merged)

But it turns out the second patch is not enough (or causes another
issue?), and the reverting it + applying first one works, is that
correct?
What happens if you keep [2] and just apply [1], does that still bug?

(I've tried reading through the thread now and I don't even see what was
the "bad" patch in the first place, although I assume it's ee4cdf7ba857
("netfs: Speed up buffered reading") -- was that confirmed?)


David, as you worked on this at the time it'd be great if you could have
another look, I have no idea what made you try [1] in the first place
but unless you think 9p is doing something wrong like double-reverting
on error or something like that I'd like to understand a bit more what
happens... Although given 6.12 is getting used more now it could make
sense to just apply [1] first until we understand, and have a proper fix
come second -- if someone can confirm we don't need to revert [2].


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/3327438.1729678025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#mc97a248b0f673dff6dc8613b508ca4fd45c4fefe
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/3327438.1729678025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m89597a1144806db4ae89992953031cdffa0b0bf9


Thanks,
-- 
Dominique