[PATCH v2 16/21] netfs: Remove netfs_extract_user_iter()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon May 18 15:29:48 PDT 2026


Remove netfs_extract_user_iter() as it has been replaced with
netfs_extract_iter().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
cc: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/netfs/iterator.c   | 104 ------------------------------------------
 include/linux/netfs.h |   3 --
 2 files changed, 107 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/iterator.c b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
index 10a25a618712..566693ac47ef 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/iterator.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
@@ -141,110 +141,6 @@ ssize_t netfs_extract_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t max_len, size_t max_pag
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netfs_extract_iter);
 
 #if 0
-/**
- * netfs_extract_user_iter - Extract the pages from a user iterator into a bvec
- * @orig: The original iterator
- * @orig_len: The amount of iterator to copy
- * @new: The iterator to be set up
- * @extraction_flags: Flags to qualify the request
- *
- * Extract the page fragments from the given amount of the source iterator and
- * build up a second iterator that refers to all of those bits.  This allows
- * the original iterator to be disposed of.
- *
- * @extraction_flags can have ITER_ALLOW_P2PDMA set to request peer-to-peer DMA be
- * allowed on the pages extracted.
- *
- * On success, the number of elements in the bvec is returned, the original
- * iterator will have been advanced by the amount extracted.
- *
- * The iov_iter_extract_mode() function should be used to query how cleanup
- * should be performed.
- */
-ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len,
-				struct iov_iter *new,
-				iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags)
-{
-	struct bio_vec *bv = NULL;
-	struct page **pages;
-	unsigned int cur_npages;
-	unsigned int max_pages;
-	unsigned int npages = 0;
-	unsigned int i;
-	ssize_t ret = 0;
-	size_t count = orig_len, offset, len;
-	size_t bv_size, pg_size;
-
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!iter_is_ubuf(orig) && !iter_is_iovec(orig)))
-		return -EIO;
-
-	max_pages = iov_iter_npages(orig, INT_MAX);
-	bv_size = array_size(max_pages, sizeof(*bv));
-	bv = kvmalloc(bv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!bv)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	/* Put the page list at the end of the bvec list storage.  bvec
-	 * elements are larger than page pointers, so as long as we work
-	 * 0->last, we should be fine.
-	 */
-	pg_size = array_size(max_pages, sizeof(*pages));
-	pages = (void *)bv + bv_size - pg_size;
-
-	while (count && npages < max_pages) {
-		ret = iov_iter_extract_pages(orig, &pages, count,
-					     max_pages - npages, extraction_flags,
-					     &offset);
-		if (unlikely(ret <= 0)) {
-			ret = ret ?: -EIO;
-			break;
-		}
-
-		if (WARN(ret > count,
-			 "%s: extract_pages overrun %zd > %zu bytes\n",
-			 __func__, ret, count)) {
-			ret = -EIO;
-			break;
-		}
-
-		cur_npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(offset + ret, PAGE_SIZE);
-		if (WARN(cur_npages > max_pages - npages,
-			 "%s: extract_pages overrun %u > %u pages\n",
-			 __func__, npages + cur_npages, max_pages)) {
-			ret = -EIO;
-			break;
-		}
-
-		count -= ret;
-		ret += offset;
-
-		for (i = 0; i < cur_npages; i++) {
-			len = ret > PAGE_SIZE ? PAGE_SIZE : ret;
-			bvec_set_page(bv + npages + i, *pages++, len - offset, offset);
-			ret -= len;
-			offset = 0;
-		}
-
-		npages += cur_npages;
-	}
-
-	/* Note: Don't try to clean up after EIO.  Either we got no pages, so
-	 * nothing to clean up, or we got a buffer overrun, memory corruption
-	 * and can't trust the stuff in the buffer (a WARN was emitted).
-	 */
-
-	if (ret < 0 && (ret == -ENOMEM || npages == 0)) {
-		for (i = 0; i < npages; i++)
-			unpin_user_page(bv[i].bv_page);
-		kvfree(bv);
-		return ret;
-	}
-
-	iov_iter_bvec(new, orig->data_source, bv, npages, orig_len - count);
-	return npages;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netfs_extract_user_iter);
-
 /*
  * Select the span of a bvec iterator we're going to use.  Limit it by both maximum
  * size and maximum number of segments.  Returns the size of the span in bytes.
diff --git a/include/linux/netfs.h b/include/linux/netfs.h
index 9e551e09054f..d0b1408bd02f 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfs.h
@@ -464,9 +464,6 @@ void netfs_put_subrequest(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq,
 ssize_t netfs_extract_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t max_len, size_t max_pages,
 			   unsigned long long fpos, struct bvecq **_bvecq_head,
 			   iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags);
-ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len,
-				struct iov_iter *new,
-				iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags);
 size_t netfs_limit_iter(const struct iov_iter *iter, size_t start_offset,
 			size_t max_size, size_t max_segs);
 void netfs_prepare_write_failed(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq);




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