Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: Fix readahead return types

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:12:01PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> A readahead request will not allocate more memory than can be represented
> by a size_t, even on systems that have HIGHMEM available.  Change the
> length functions from returning an loff_t to a size_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

Looks reasonable to me; is this a 5.13 bugfix or just something that
doesn't look right (i.e. save it for 5.14)?

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

--D

> ---
>  fs/iomap/buffered-io.c  | 4 ++--
>  include/linux/pagemap.h | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> index f2cd2034a87b..9023717c5188 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c
> @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ void iomap_readahead(struct readahead_control *rac, const struct iomap_ops *ops)
>  {
>  	struct inode *inode = rac->mapping->host;
>  	loff_t pos = readahead_pos(rac);
> -	loff_t length = readahead_length(rac);
> +	size_t length = readahead_length(rac);
>  	struct iomap_readpage_ctx ctx = {
>  		.rac	= rac,
>  	};
> @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ void iomap_readahead(struct readahead_control *rac, const struct iomap_ops *ops)
>  	trace_iomap_readahead(inode, readahead_count(rac));
>  
>  	while (length > 0) {
> -		loff_t ret = iomap_apply(inode, pos, length, 0, ops,
> +		ssize_t ret = iomap_apply(inode, pos, length, 0, ops,
>  				&ctx, iomap_readahead_actor);
>  		if (ret <= 0) {
>  			WARN_ON_ONCE(ret == 0);
> diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> index a4bd41128bf3..e89df447fae3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> @@ -997,9 +997,9 @@ static inline loff_t readahead_pos(struct readahead_control *rac)
>   * readahead_length - The number of bytes in this readahead request.
>   * @rac: The readahead request.
>   */
> -static inline loff_t readahead_length(struct readahead_control *rac)
> +static inline size_t readahead_length(struct readahead_control *rac)
>  {
> -	return (loff_t)rac->_nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
> +	return rac->_nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ static inline unsigned int readahead_count(struct readahead_control *rac)
>   * readahead_batch_length - The number of bytes in the current batch.
>   * @rac: The readahead request.
>   */
> -static inline loff_t readahead_batch_length(struct readahead_control *rac)
> +static inline size_t readahead_batch_length(struct readahead_control *rac)
>  {
>  	return rac->_batch_count * PAGE_SIZE;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.30.2
>