[PATCH] smb: smbdirect: select CONFIG_SG_POOL

Stefan Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Mon Feb 16 11:26:02 UTC 2026


Am 16.02.26 um 12:15 schrieb Stefan Metzmacher via samba-technical:
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> I'm wondering what the top commit is that you where compiling,
> I guess that's before the 'smb: client: make use of smbdirect.ko'
> commit.
> 
> As we have this at the end of the patchset in ksmbd-for-next:
> 
> fs/smb/common/smbdirect/Kconfig
> 
> config SMB_COMMON_SMBDIRECT
>          def_tristate n
>          depends on INFINIBAND && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS
>          depends on m || INFINIBAND != m
>          select SG_POOL
> 
> I'll try to change the patches to have your hunk
> in the temporary phase in the patchset where we use
> smbdirect_all_c_files, as it's gone at the end of
> the patchset.
> 
> Thanks!
> metze
> 
> Am 16.02.26 um 11:54 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>
>> The smbdirect code now uses the scatter/gather pool interface. This
>> causes a build failure when the interface is disabled:
>>
>> In file included from fs/smb/client/../common/smbdirect/smbdirect_all_c_files.c:21,
>>                   from fs/smb/client/smbdirect.c:176:
>> fs/smb/client/../common/smbdirect/smbdirect_rw.c: In function 'smbdirect_connection_rw_io_free':
>> fs/smb/client/../common/smbdirect/smbdirect_rw.c:76:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'sg_free_table_chained' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>>     76 |         sg_free_table_chained(&msg->sgt, SG_CHUNK_SIZE);
>>        |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> The other users of this interface all 'select SG_POOL', so so the same
>> here.
>>
>> Fixes: 5ab0987c492e ("smb: smbdirect: introduce smbdirect_rw.c with server rw code")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> ---
>>   fs/smb/client/Kconfig | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/Kconfig b/fs/smb/client/Kconfig
>> index 17bd368574e9..725422b45ef4 100644
>> --- a/fs/smb/client/Kconfig
>> +++ b/fs/smb/client/Kconfig
>> @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ if CIFS
>>   config CIFS_SMB_DIRECT
>>       bool "SMB Direct support"
>>       depends on CIFS=m && INFINIBAND && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS || CIFS=y && INFINIBAND=y && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS=y
>> +    select SG_POOL

I'm squashing this into the
'smb: client: include smbdirect_all_c_files.c' commit
and the 'smb: client: make use of smbdirect.ko' commit
will remove it again.

metze



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