Re: [PATCH] direct-io: Fix sleep in atomic due to sync AIO

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On Mon, Feb 26 2018, Jan Kara wrote:
> Commit e864f39569f4 "fs: add RWF_DSYNC aand RWF_SYNC" added additional
> way for direct IO to become synchronous and thus trigger fsync from the
> IO completion handler. Then commit 9830f4be159b "fs: Use RWF_* flags for
> AIO operations" allowed these flags to be set for AIO as well. However
> that commit forgot to update the condition checking whether the IO
> completion handling should be defered to a workqueue and thus AIO DIO
> with RWF_[D]SYNC set will call fsync() from IRQ context resulting in
> sleep in atomic.
> 
> Fix the problem by checking directly iocb flags (the same way as it is
> done in dio_complete()) instead of checking all conditions that could
> lead to IO being synchronous.

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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