linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] ext4: Warn if we ever fallback to buffered-io for DIO atomic writes

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Message-ID: <7c4779f1f0c8ead30f660a2cfbdf4d7cc08e405a.1729825985.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:15:53 +0530
From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>,
	Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] ext4: Warn if we ever fallback to buffered-io for DIO atomic writes

iomap will not return -ENOTBLK in case of dio atomic writes. But let's
also add a WARN_ON_ONCE and return -EIO as a safety net.

Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>
---
 fs/ext4/file.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index f9516121a036..af6ebd0ac0d6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -576,8 +576,16 @@ static ssize_t ext4_dio_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 		iomap_ops = &ext4_iomap_overwrite_ops;
 	ret = iomap_dio_rw(iocb, from, iomap_ops, &ext4_dio_write_ops,
 			   dio_flags, NULL, 0);
-	if (ret == -ENOTBLK)
+	if (ret == -ENOTBLK) {
 		ret = 0;
+		/*
+		 * iomap will never return -ENOTBLK if write fails for atomic
+		 * write. But let's just add a safety net.
+		 */
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_ATOMIC))
+			ret = -EIO;
+	}
+
 	if (extend) {
 		/*
 		 * We always perform extending DIO write synchronously so by
-- 
2.46.0