[PATCH] netfs, afs: Fix symlink reading

From: David Howells

Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 12:27:28 EST


Fix the reading of symlinks from the cache in afs by making netfslib trim
the amount read down to i_size. The problem is that afs sets the size of
the iterator to the size of the buffer (PAGE_SIZE) so that the cache can
round the read size up to the cache's DIO size.

Note that this also impacts the reading of AFS mountpoints as they're just
stored as symlinks with an odd file mode.

Fixes: c0410adf3da6 ("afs: Fix the locking used by afs_get_link()")
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: netfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/netfs/read_collect.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/read_collect.c b/fs/netfs/read_collect.c
index 5cf22087d243..a94197ef0181 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/read_collect.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/read_collect.c
@@ -435,6 +435,11 @@ static void netfs_rreq_assess_single(struct netfs_io_request *rreq)
netfs_single_mark_inode_dirty(rreq->inode);
}

+ /* To do DIO, the cache has to round the size up, so we need to undo
+ * the rounding.
+ */
+ rreq->transferred = min(rreq->transferred, rreq->i_size);
+
if (rreq->iocb) {
rreq->iocb->ki_pos += rreq->transferred;
if (rreq->iocb->ki_complete) {