Readahead was factored to call generic_fadvise. That refactor added an
S_ISREG restriction which broke readahead on block devices.
In addition to S_ISREG, this change checks S_ISBLK to fix block device
readahead. There is no change in behavior with any file type besides block
devices in this change.
Fixes: 3d8f7615319b ("vfs: implement readahead(2) using POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED")
Signed-off-by: Reuben Hawkins <reubenhwk@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/readahead.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index e815c114de21..6925e6959fd3 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -735,7 +735,8 @@ ssize_t ksys_readahead(int fd, loff_t offset, size_t count)
*/
ret = -EINVAL;
if (!f.file->f_mapping || !f.file->f_mapping->a_ops ||
- !S_ISREG(file_inode(f.file)->i_mode))
+ (!S_ISREG(file_inode(f.file)->i_mode) &&
+ !S_ISBLK(file_inode(f.file)->i_mode)))
goto out;
ret = vfs_fadvise(f.file, offset, count, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED);
--
2.34.1
