On Thu 11-05-17 14:17:04, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> > > RWF_NOWAIT informs kernel to bail out if an AIO request will block > for reasons such as file allocations, or a writeback triggered, > or would block while allocating requests while performing > direct I/O. > > RWF_NOWAIT is translated to IOCB_NOWAIT for iocb->ki_flags. > > The check for -EOPNOTSUPP is placed in generic_file_write_iter(). This > is called by most filesystems, either through fsops.write_iter() or through > the function defined by write_iter(). If not, we perform the check defined > by .write_iter() which is called for direct IO specifically. > > Filesystems xfs, btrfs and ext4 would be supported in the following patches. ... > diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c > index 020fa0045e3c..34027b67e2f4 100644 > --- a/fs/aio.c > +++ b/fs/aio.c > @@ -1592,6 +1592,12 @@ static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb, > goto out_put_req; > } > > + if ((req->common.ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) && > + !(req->common.ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT)) { > + ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; > + goto out_put_req; > + } > + > ret = put_user(KIOCB_KEY, &user_iocb->aio_key); > if (unlikely(ret)) { > pr_debug("EFAULT: aio_key\n"); I think you need to also check here that the IO is write. So that NOWAIT reads don't silently pass. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR