This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cifs: Check the IOCB_DIRECT flag, not O_DIRECT
to the 5.17-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:
cifs-check-the-iocb_direct-flag-not-o_direct.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit aef8b4717c75b30b358a170c37c2e7182f1cc7d6
Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 7 00:03:14 2022 +0100
cifs: Check the IOCB_DIRECT flag, not O_DIRECT
[ Upstream commit 994fd530a512597ffcd713b0f6d5bc916c5698f0 ]
Use the IOCB_DIRECT indicator flag on the I/O context rather than checking to
see if the file was opened O_DIRECT.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 792fdcfdc6ad..10aa0fb94613 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ cifs_loose_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
ssize_t rc;
struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
- if (iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
+ if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT)
return cifs_user_readv(iocb, iter);
rc = cifs_revalidate_mapping(inode);
