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[v2,18/18] NFS: Remove unnecessary check in nfs_read_folio()

Message ID 20230119213351.443388-19-trondmy@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Initial conversion of NFS basic I/O to use folios | expand

Commit Message

Trond Myklebust Jan. 19, 2023, 9:33 p.m. UTC
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

All the callers are expected to supply a valid struct file argument, so
there is no need for the NULL check.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
---
 fs/nfs/read.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Matthew Wilcox Feb. 23, 2023, 1:22 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:33:51PM -0500, trondmy@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
> 
> All the callers are expected to supply a valid struct file argument, so
> there is no need for the NULL check.

Ummm.  Not sure that's true.  Look at this path:

mapping_read_folio_gfp(mapping, index, gfp)
do_read_cache_folio(mapping, index, NULL, NULL, gfp)
filemap_read_folio(NULL, mapping->a_ops->read_folio, folio)

It could well be that nobody does this to an NFS file!  The places where
I see this called tend to be filesystems doing it to block devices,
or filesystems doing it to their own files (eg reading a journal file
or quota file)

But I'm suspicious of static match tools claiming it can't ever happen,
and I'd like more details please.  I can't find the original report.
Also, it would have been nice to be cc'd on the folio conversion patches.

> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/read.c | 8 +-------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/read.c b/fs/nfs/read.c
> index bf4154f9b48c..c380cff4108e 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/read.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/read.c
> @@ -355,13 +355,7 @@ int nfs_read_folio(struct file *file, struct folio *folio)
>  	if (NFS_STALE(inode))
>  		goto out_unlock;
>  
> -	if (file == NULL) {
> -		ret = -EBADF;
> -		desc.ctx = nfs_find_open_context(inode, NULL, FMODE_READ);
> -		if (desc.ctx == NULL)
> -			goto out_unlock;
> -	} else
> -		desc.ctx = get_nfs_open_context(nfs_file_open_context(file));
> +	desc.ctx = get_nfs_open_context(nfs_file_open_context(file));
>  
>  	xchg(&desc.ctx->error, 0);
>  	nfs_pageio_init_read(&desc.pgio, inode, false,
> -- 
> 2.39.0
>
Dan Carpenter Feb. 23, 2023, 1:43 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 01:22:54PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> But I'm suspicious of static match tools claiming it can't ever happen,
> and I'd like more details please.  I can't find the original report.

I would never write a warning like that...  However at the time when
I reported the bug then Smatch did say that all the callers passed a
non-NULL file pointer.  I've reviewed my logs and that was true when I
said it but it's not true now.  :(  Now Smatch says there are three
callers and nfs_write_begin() passes a valid pointer, read_pages()
passes either a valid pointer or a NULL and filemap_read_folio() passes
an unknown pointer.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y77+n9MyHgx%2FalA4@kadam/

The issue here is that the pointer was already derefernced on the lines
before the check for NULL.

	struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);

So either the dereference or the check was wrong.

regards,
dan carpenter
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diff --git a/fs/nfs/read.c b/fs/nfs/read.c
index bf4154f9b48c..c380cff4108e 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/read.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/read.c
@@ -355,13 +355,7 @@  int nfs_read_folio(struct file *file, struct folio *folio)
 	if (NFS_STALE(inode))
 		goto out_unlock;
 
-	if (file == NULL) {
-		ret = -EBADF;
-		desc.ctx = nfs_find_open_context(inode, NULL, FMODE_READ);
-		if (desc.ctx == NULL)
-			goto out_unlock;
-	} else
-		desc.ctx = get_nfs_open_context(nfs_file_open_context(file));
+	desc.ctx = get_nfs_open_context(nfs_file_open_context(file));
 
 	xchg(&desc.ctx->error, 0);
 	nfs_pageio_init_read(&desc.pgio, inode, false,