Re: [PATCH] do_direct_IO: Use inode->i_blkbits to compute block count to be cleaned

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jan 09 2017 - 15:20:27 EST


On Sun 08-01-17 20:17:10, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> The code currently uses sdio->blkbits to compute the number of blocks to
> be cleaned. However sdio->blkbits is derived from the logical block size
> of the underlying block device (Refer to the definition of
> do_blockdev_direct_IO()). Due to this, generic/299 test would rarely
> fail when executed on an ext4 filesystem with 64k as the block size and
> when using a virtio based disk (having 512 byte as the logical block
> size) inside a kvm guest.
>
> This commit fixes the bug by using inode->i_blkbits to compute the
> number of blocks to be cleaned.

Ah, good catch. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/direct-io.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
> index aeae8c0..b20adf9 100644
> --- a/fs/direct-io.c
> +++ b/fs/direct-io.c
> @@ -905,6 +905,7 @@ static inline void dio_zero_block(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio,
> static int do_direct_IO(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio,
> struct buffer_head *map_bh)
> {
> + const unsigned i_blkbits = dio->inode->i_blkbits;
> const unsigned blkbits = sdio->blkbits;
> int ret = 0;
>
> @@ -949,7 +950,7 @@ static int do_direct_IO(struct dio *dio, struct dio_submit *sdio,
> clean_bdev_aliases(
> map_bh->b_bdev,
> map_bh->b_blocknr,
> - map_bh->b_size >> blkbits);
> + map_bh->b_size >> i_blkbits);
> }
>
> if (!sdio->blkfactor)
> --
> 2.5.5
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR