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    netfs: Cancel dirty folios that have no storage destination · 8f246b7c
    David Howells authored
    Kafs wants to be able to cache the contents of directories (and symlinks),
    but whilst these are downloaded from the server with the FS.FetchData RPC
    op and similar, the same as for regular files, they can't be updated by
    FS.StoreData, but rather have special operations (FS.MakeDir, etc.).
    
    Now, rather than redownloading a directory's content after each change made
    to that directory, kafs modifies the local blob.  This blob can be saved
    out to the cache, and since it's using netfslib, kafs just marks the folios
    dirty and lets ->writepages() on the directory take care of it, as for an
    regular file.
    
    This is fine as long as there's a cache as although the upload stream is
    disabled, there's a cache stream to drive the procedure.  But if the cache
    goes away in the meantime, suddenly there's no way do any writes and the
    code gets confused, complains "R=%x: No submit" to dmesg and leaves the
    dirty folio hanging.
    
    Fix this by just cancelling the store of the folio if neither stream is
    active.  (If there's no cache at the time of dirtying, we should just not
    mark the folio dirty).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
    cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
    cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814203850.2240469-23-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v2
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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