Re: [PATCH 2/2] fuse: Adjust readdir() buffer to requesting buffer size.

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 at 13:13, Jaco Kroon <jaco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How do I go about confirming?  Can that behaviour be stopped so that in
> the case where it would block we can return an EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK
> error code instead?  Is that even desired?

All allocations except GFP_ATOMIC may block (that applies to
folio_alloc() and kmalloc() too).  This shouldn't be a worry in the
readdir path.  Freeing can safely be done in an atomic context.

Thanks,
Miklos