Re: [PATCH] netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry

[Christian Brauner]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:38:58 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Under certain circumstances, all the remaining subrequests from a read
> request will get abandoned during retry.  The abandonment process expects
> the 'subreq' variable to be set to the place to start abandonment from, but
> it doesn't always have a useful value (it will be uninitialised on the
> first pass through the loop and it may point to a deleted subrequest on
> later passes).
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/7e57523490cd