linux-ext4 - [PATCH 3/3] f2fs: fix inode rwsem regression

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Message-Id: <20190911164517.16130-4-rgoldwyn@suse.de>
Date:   Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:45:17 -0500
From:   Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.de>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        hch@...radead.org, andres@...razel.de, david@...morbit.com,
        riteshh@...ux.ibm.com, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] f2fs: fix inode rwsem regression

From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>

This is similar to 942491c9e6d6 ("xfs: fix AIM7 regression")
Apparently our current rwsem code doesn't like doing the trylock, then
lock for real scheme.  So change our read/write methods to just do the
trylock for the RWF_NOWAIT case.

We don't need a check for IOCB_NOWAIT and !direct-IO because it
is checked in generic_write_checks().

Fixes: b91050a80cec ("f2fs: add nowait aio support")
Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>
---
 fs/f2fs/file.c | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 3e58a6f697dd..c6f3ef815c05 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -3134,16 +3134,12 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if ((iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) && !(iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT)) {
-		ret = -EINVAL;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	if (!inode_trylock(inode)) {
-		if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) {
+	if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) {
+		if (!inode_trylock(inode)) {
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 			goto out;
 		}
+	} else {
 		inode_lock(inode);
 	}
 
-- 
2.16.4