This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nvmet: use IOCB_NOWAIT only if the filesystem supports it
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nvmet-use-iocb_nowait-only-if-the-filesystem-support.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fbdbcc4303b615c8f0934826f4646c748438c82b
Author: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 22 11:08:27 2021 +0100
nvmet: use IOCB_NOWAIT only if the filesystem supports it
[ Upstream commit c024b226a417c4eb9353ff500b1c823165d4d508 ]
Submit I/O requests with the IOCB_NOWAIT flag set only if
the underlying filesystem supports it.
Fixes: 50a909db36f2 ("nvmet: use IOCB_NOWAIT for file-ns buffered I/O")
Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-file.c b/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-file.c
index 6ca17a0babae2..1c8d16b0245b1 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-file.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-file.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/falloc.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
#include "nvmet.h"
#define NVMET_MAX_MPOOL_BVEC 16
@@ -254,7 +255,8 @@ static void nvmet_file_execute_rw(struct nvmet_req *req)
if (req->ns->buffered_io) {
if (likely(!req->f.mpool_alloc) &&
- nvmet_file_execute_io(req, IOCB_NOWAIT))
+ (req->ns->file->f_mode & FMODE_NOWAIT) &&
+ nvmet_file_execute_io(req, IOCB_NOWAIT))
return;
nvmet_file_submit_buffered_io(req);
} else
