When direct I/O completions invalidates the page cache it holds neither the i_rwsem nor the invalidate_lock so it can be racing with iomap_write_delalloc_release. If the search for the end of the region that contains data returns the start offset we hit such a race and just need to look for the end of the newly created hole instead. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c index f420c53d86acc5..69a931de1979b9 100644 --- a/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c +++ b/fs/iomap/buffered-io.c @@ -1241,7 +1241,15 @@ static int iomap_write_delalloc_release(struct inode *inode, error = data_end; goto out_unlock; } - WARN_ON_ONCE(data_end <= start_byte); + + /* + * If we race with post-direct I/O invalidation of the page cache, + * there might be no data left at start_byte. + */ + if (data_end == start_byte) + continue; + + WARN_ON_ONCE(data_end < start_byte); WARN_ON_ONCE(data_end > scan_end_byte); error = iomap_write_delalloc_scan(inode, &punch_start_byte, -- 2.43.0