From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, netfs@lists.linux.dev,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfs, afs: Fix symlink reading
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:16:51 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b43959f691534540e12266c38e778a79@manguebit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3912795.1789489319@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:
> Fix the reading of symlinks from the cache in afs by making netfslib trim
> the amount read down to i_size. The problem is that afs sets the size of
> the iterator to the size of the buffer (PAGE_SIZE) so that the cache can
> round the read size up to the cache's DIO size.
>
> Note that this also impacts the reading of AFS mountpoints as they're just
> stored as symlinks with an odd file mode.
>
> Fixes: c0410adf3da6 ("afs: Fix the locking used by afs_get_link()")
> cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 17:16 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-15 16:21 David Howells
2026-09-15 17:16 ` Paulo Alcantara [this message]
2026-09-17 10:27 ` Christian Brauner
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