Direct writes to empty inodes fail with EIO. The generic direct-io code
is in part to blame (a patch has been submitted as "direct-io: allow
direct writes to empty inodes"), but hfs is worse affected than the
other filesystems because the fallback to buffered I/O doesn't happen.
The problem is the return value of hfs_get_block() when called with
!create. Change it to be more consistent with the other modules.
Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/hfs/extent.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/hfs/extent.c b/fs/hfs/extent.c
index 0c638c612152..5f1ff97a3b98 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/extent.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/extent.c
@@ -345,7 +345,9 @@ int hfs_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t block,
ablock = (u32)block / HFS_SB(sb)->fs_div;
if (block >= HFS_I(inode)->fs_blocks) {
- if (block > HFS_I(inode)->fs_blocks || !create)
+ if (!create)
+ return 0;
+ if (block > HFS_I(inode)->fs_blocks)
return -EIO;
if (ablock >= HFS_I(inode)->alloc_blocks) {
res = hfs_extend_file(inode);
--
2.11.0
