Re: [PATCH 2.6.3-mm4] direct_io_worker-aio_complete patch (fixes AIO Oops)

[Tobias Diedrich]

Daniel McNeil wrote:

> Here is the fix to this AIO oops.  An AIO O_DIRECT request was extending
> the file so it was done synchronously.  However, the request got an
> EFAULT and direct_io_worker() was calling aio_complete() on the iocb and
> returning the EFAULT.  When io_submit_one() got the EFAULT return,
> it assume it had to call aio_complete() since the i/o never got
> queued.

Thanks, this does indeed fix the oops for me.

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