[RFC PATCH 13/17] netfs: Remove netfs_extract_user_iter()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Mar 4 06:03:20 PST 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   | 89 -------------------------------------------
 include/linux/netfs.h |  3 --
 2 files changed, 92 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/iterator.c b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
index 2b0a511d6db7..5ae9279a2dfb 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/iterator.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
@@ -136,95 +136,6 @@ ssize_t netfs_extract_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len, size_t max_se
 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 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;
-	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 (ret < 0) {
-			pr_err("Couldn't get user pages (rc=%zd)\n", ret);
-			break;
-		}
-
-		if (ret > count) {
-			pr_err("get_pages rc=%zd more than %zu\n", ret, count);
-			break;
-		}
-
-		count -= ret;
-		ret += offset;
-		cur_npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(ret, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-		if (npages + cur_npages > max_pages) {
-			pr_err("Out of bvec array capacity (%u vs %u)\n",
-			       npages + cur_npages, max_pages);
-			break;
-		}
-
-		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;
-	}
-
-	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 e49cb8ffb811..05abb3425962 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfs.h
@@ -451,9 +451,6 @@ void netfs_put_subrequest(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq,
 ssize_t netfs_extract_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len, size_t max_segs,
 			   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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