Might help to tell that this is on top of a direct-io.c patch from the XFS tree. I don't think clearing any flags is the right thing - now that we always call ->end_io the code dealing with it in ext4_ext_direct_IO can simply be moved to the ->end_io handler. Something like the untested patch below: diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 9db04dd..b741c79 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3166,23 +3166,25 @@ static int ext4_end_io_dio(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset, { ext4_io_end_t *io_end = iocb->private; - if (size <= 0) - return 0; - /* if not async direct IO just return */ if (!io_end) return 0; + if (size <= 0) { + WARN_ON(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN); + goto out; + } + ext_debug("ext4_end_io_dio(): io_end 0x%p " "for inode %lu, iocb 0x%p, offset %llu, size %zd\n", iocb->private, io_end->inode->i_ino, iocb, offset, size); - iocb->private = NULL; io_end->offset = offset; io_end->size = size; +out: ext4_put_io_end(io_end); - + iocb->private = NULL; return 0; } @@ -3306,16 +3308,6 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, if (io_end) { ext4_inode_aio_set(inode, NULL); ext4_put_io_end(io_end); - /* - * When no IO was submitted ext4_end_io_dio() was not - * called so we have to put iocb's reference. - */ - if (ret <= 0 && ret != -EIOCBQUEUED && iocb->private) { - WARN_ON(iocb->private != io_end); - WARN_ON(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN); - ext4_put_io_end(io_end); - iocb->private = NULL; - } } if (ret > 0 && !overwrite && ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN)) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html