linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: don't block for O_DIRECT if IOCB

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Date:   Sun, 24 May 2020 16:53:16 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: don't block for O_DIRECT if IOCB_NOWAIT is set

Running with some debug patches to detect illegal blocking triggered the
extend/unaligned condition in ext4. If ext4 needs to extend the file (and
hence go to buffered IO), or if the app is doing unaligned IO, then ext4
asks the iomap code to wait for IO completion. If the caller asked for
no-wait semantics by setting IOCB_NOWAIT, then ext4 should return -EAGAIN
instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>

---

diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index 0d624250a62b..3ac95f4cada6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -495,6 +495,12 @@ static ssize_t ext4_dio_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 	if (ret <= 0)
 		return ret;

+	/* if we're going to block and IOCB_NOWAIT is set, return -EAGAIN */
+	if ((iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) && (unaligned_io || extend)) {
+		ret = -EAGAIN;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	offset = iocb->ki_pos;
 	count = ret;

-- 
Jens Axboe