On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:29:00AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 10/26/18 3:30 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Mon 08-10-18 20:58:23, Ernesto A. Fernández wrote: > >> On a DIO_SKIP_HOLES filesystem, the ->get_block() method is currently > >> not allowed to create blocks for an empty inode. This confusion comes > >> from trying to bit shift a negative number, so check the size of the > >> inode first. > >> > >> The problem is most visible for hfsplus, because the fallback to > >> buffered I/O doesn't happen and the write fails with EIO. This is in > >> part the fault of the module, because it gives a wrong return value on > >> ->get_block(); that will be fixed in a separate patch. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Good catch. The patch looks good. You can add: > > > > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > > > > Also Jens often picks up patches for direct IO code so added him to CC. > > Jens? > > Looks good to me. Ernesto, did you run this through xfstests as well? I only ran the quick tests for ext2. Also for hfsplus, but those are not very meaningful because too many are failing. > > -- > Jens Axboe >