ext4: don't block for O_DIRECT if IOCB_NOWAIT is set
authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sun, 24 May 2020 22:53:16 +0000 (16:53 -0600)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 4 Jun 2020 03:16:55 +0000 (23:16 -0400)
commit6e014c621e7271649f0d51e54dbe1db4c10486c8
tree142bb59e0c410272246019bd75a7823c497e53c7
parentba988903937c1b1ce5d54567b50f2ad9604b3bfe
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@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/76152096-2bbb-7682-8fce-4cb498bcd909@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/file.c