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authorShyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>2026-03-10 16:00:17 +0530
committerSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>2026-06-24 16:49:02 -0500
commitf53208233b2acaafe2af99c63c02481b2f5bcb39 (patch)
treef5e0f09ce3bb9aefd3d6f0adc3a7e7644df7c313
parent99cd0a6eeb6c20fc6b914e7ce192c6b08e1ef906 (diff)
cifs: define variable sized buffer for querydir responses
QueryDirectory responses today are stored in one of two fixed sized buffers: smallbuf (448 bytes) or bigbuf (16KB). These are borrowed from server struct and are not sufficient for large-sized query dir operations. With this change we will now define a new buffer type specifically for cifs_search_info to hold variable sized responses. These will be allocated by kmalloc and freed by kfree. Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h2
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/client/file.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/client/readdir.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c14
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
index befc5eecb55c..99f9e6dca62b 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
@@ -1393,6 +1393,7 @@ struct cifs_search_info {
bool emptyDir:1;
bool unicode:1;
bool smallBuf:1; /* so we know which buf_release function to call */
+ bool is_dynamic_buf:1; /* dynamically allocated buffer - can be variable size */
};
#define ACL_NO_MODE ((umode_t)(-1))
@@ -1906,6 +1907,7 @@ enum cifs_find_flags {
#define CIFS_NO_BUFFER 0 /* Response buffer not returned */
#define CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER 1
#define CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER 2
+#define CIFS_DYNAMIC_BUFFER 3 /* Dynamically allocated buffer */
#define CIFS_IOVEC 4 /* array of response buffers */
/* Type of Request to SendReceive2 */
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/file.c b/fs/smb/client/file.c
index 58430ba51b10..8b25d6c9ec5e 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/file.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/file.c
@@ -1563,6 +1563,8 @@ int cifs_closedir(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start = NULL;
if (cfile->srch_inf.smallBuf)
cifs_small_buf_release(buf);
+ else if (cfile->srch_inf.is_dynamic_buf)
+ kfree(buf);
else
cifs_buf_release(buf);
}
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/readdir.c b/fs/smb/client/readdir.c
index 1ff77f3d1de0..a50c86bbe60f 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/readdir.c
@@ -732,6 +732,8 @@ find_cifs_entry(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, loff_t pos,
if (cfile->srch_inf.smallBuf)
cifs_small_buf_release(cfile->srch_inf.
ntwrk_buf_start);
+ else if (cfile->srch_inf.is_dynamic_buf)
+ kfree(cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start);
else
cifs_buf_release(cfile->srch_inf.
ntwrk_buf_start);
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
index 85642ea992d5..d058584b8f05 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
@@ -5673,6 +5673,8 @@ smb2_parse_query_directory(struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
if (srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start) {
if (srch_inf->smallBuf)
cifs_small_buf_release(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);
+ else if (srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf)
+ kfree(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);
else
cifs_buf_release(srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start);
}
@@ -5692,12 +5694,18 @@ smb2_parse_query_directory(struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
cifs_dbg(FYI, "num entries %d last_index %lld srch start %p srch end %p\n",
srch_inf->entries_in_buffer, srch_inf->index_of_last_entry,
srch_inf->srch_entries_start, srch_inf->last_entry);
- if (resp_buftype == CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER)
+ if (resp_buftype == CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER) {
srch_inf->smallBuf = false;
- else if (resp_buftype == CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER)
+ srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = false;
+ } else if (resp_buftype == CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER) {
srch_inf->smallBuf = true;
- else
+ srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = false;
+ } else if (resp_buftype == CIFS_DYNAMIC_BUFFER) {
+ srch_inf->smallBuf = false;
+ srch_inf->is_dynamic_buf = true;
+ } else {
cifs_tcon_dbg(VFS, "Invalid search buffer type\n");
+ }
return 0;
}