This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: lustre: llite: don't invoke direct_IO for the EOF case
to the 4.9-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:
staging-lustre-llite-don-t-invoke-direct_io-for-the-eof-case.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:07:35 CET 2017
From: Yang Sheng <yang.sheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:36:54 +0000
Subject: staging: lustre: llite: don't invoke direct_IO for the EOF case
From: Yang Sheng <yang.sheng@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 77759771fb95420d23876cb104ab65c022613325 ]
The function generic_file_read_iter() does not check EOF
before invoke direct_IO callback. So we have to check it
ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Yang Sheng <yang.sheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-8969
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/24552
Reviewed-by: Bob Glossman <bob.glossman@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bobi Jam <bobijam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
@@ -354,6 +354,10 @@ static ssize_t ll_direct_IO_26(struct ki
if (!lli->lli_has_smd)
return -EBADF;
+ /* Check EOF by ourselves */
+ if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == READ && file_offset >= i_size_read(inode))
+ return 0;
+
/* FIXME: io smaller than PAGE_SIZE is broken on ia64 ??? */
if ((file_offset & ~PAGE_MASK) || (count & ~PAGE_MASK))
return -EINVAL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yang.sheng@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/staging-lustre-llite-don-t-invoke-direct_io-for-the-eof-case.patch