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Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 534a913..4c2f8b5 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3767,10 +3767,18 @@ static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) /* Credits for sb + inode write */ handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { - /* This is really bad luck. We've written the data - * but cannot extend i_size. Bail out and pretend - * the write failed... */ - ret = PTR_ERR(handle); + /* + * We wrote the data but cannot extend + * i_size. Bail out. In async io case, we do + * not return error here because we have + * already submmitted the corresponding + * bio. Returning error here makes the caller + * think that this IO is done and failed + * resulting in race with bio's completion + * handler. + */ + if (!ret) + ret = PTR_ERR(handle); if (inode->i_nlink) ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode); |