Re: [PATCH v4] fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()

From: Baokun Li
Date: Thu Jun 26 2025 - 22:02:53 EST


On 2025/6/26 19:32, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
All filesystems will already check the max and min value of their block
size during their initialization. __getblk_slow() is a very low-level
function to have these checks. Remove them and only check for logical
block size alignment.

As this check with logical block size alignment might never trigger, add
WARN_ON_ONCE() to the check. As WARN_ON_ONCE() will already print the
stack, remove the call to dump_stack().

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Makes sense. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
Changes since v3:
- Use WARN_ON_ONCE on the logical block size check and remove the call
to dump_stack.
- Use IS_ALIGNED() to check for aligned instead of open coding the
check.

fs/buffer.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index d61073143127..565fe88773c2 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1122,14 +1122,9 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
{
bool blocking = gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp);
- if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1) ||
- (size < 512 || size > PAGE_SIZE))) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "getblk(): invalid block size %d requested\n",
- size);
- printk(KERN_ERR "logical block size: %d\n",
- bdev_logical_block_size(bdev));
-
- dump_stack();
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(size, bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)))) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "getblk(): block size %d not aligned to logical block size %d\n",
+ size, bdev_logical_block_size(bdev));
return NULL;
}

base-commit: b39f7d75dc41b5f5d028192cd5d66cff71179f35