From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> This is similar to 942491c9e6d6 ("xfs: fix AIM7 regression") Apparently our current rwsem code doesn't like doing the trylock, then lock for real scheme. So change our read/write methods to just do the trylock for the RWF_NOWAIT case. Fixes: 728fbc0e10b7 ("ext4: nowait aio support") Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/file.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c index 70b0438dbc94..d5b2d0cc325d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/file.c +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c @@ -40,11 +40,13 @@ static ssize_t ext4_dax_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to) struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp); ssize_t ret; - if (!inode_trylock_shared(inode)) { - if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) + if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) { + if (!inode_trylock_shared(inode)) return -EAGAIN; + } else { inode_lock_shared(inode); } + /* * Recheck under inode lock - at this point we are sure it cannot * change anymore @@ -190,11 +192,13 @@ ext4_dax_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from) struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp); ssize_t ret; - if (!inode_trylock(inode)) { - if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) + if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) { + if (!inode_trylock(inode)) return -EAGAIN; + } else { inode_lock(inode); } + ret = ext4_write_checks(iocb, from); if (ret <= 0) goto out; @@ -233,9 +237,10 @@ ext4_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from) if (!o_direct && (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; - if (!inode_trylock(inode)) { - if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) + if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) { + if (!inode_trylock(inode)) return -EAGAIN; + } else { inode_lock(inode); } -- 2.16.4