[PATCH 0/3] netfs, cachefiles: Miscellaneous fixes

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon Aug 24 05:02:19 PDT 2026


Hi Christian,

Here are a couple of miscellaneous fixes for netfslib and one for cachefiles,
if you could pick them up?

 (1) Fix an uninitialised return value from netfs_unbuffered_write().

 (2) Fix read progress reporting to avoid 64-bit tearing on a 32-bit
     machine.  This has been modified from the previous submission as part
     of a different series to take account of a sashiko reported issue[1].

 (3) Fix a potential UAF/KASAN warning reported by sashiko[1] in cachefiles in
     which the coherency data buffer is cast to a __be64* and dereferenced in
     a tracepoint - even though it might not be at least that large (or
     aligned).

The patches can also be found here:

	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=netfs-fixes

Thanks,
David

[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260810144746.574036-1-dhowells%40redhat.com

David Howells (2):
  netfs: Fix read progress reporting
  cachefiles: Fix potential UAF/KASAN warning

Karl Mehltretter (1):
  netfs: Fix uninitialized return value in netfs_unbuffered_write()

 fs/cachefiles/xattr.c             | 16 ++++-----
 fs/netfs/buffered_read.c          |  4 +++
 fs/netfs/direct_write.c           |  2 +-
 fs/netfs/internal.h               |  1 +
 fs/netfs/objects.c                | 32 ++++++++++-------
 fs/netfs/read_collect.c           | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 fs/netfs/read_single.c            |  2 ++
 include/linux/netfs.h             |  2 +-
 include/trace/events/cachefiles.h | 19 ++++++++--
 include/trace/events/netfs.h      | 21 +++++++++++
 10 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)




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