[PATCH 08/10] libext2fs: allow unix_write_byte when the write would be aligned

Darrick J. Wong
2025-05-22T00:10:20Z

If someone calls write_byte on an IO channel with an alignment
requirement and the range to be written is aligned correctly, go ahead
and do the write. This will be needed later when we try to speed up
superblock writes.

Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
---
lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c b/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c
index 4c924ec9ee0760..008a5b46ce7f1f 100644
--- a/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c
+++ b/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c
@@ -1534,7 +1534,9 @@ static errcode_t unix_write_byte(io_channel channel, unsigned long offset,
#ifdef ALIGN_DEBUG
printf("unix_write_byte: O_DIRECT fallback\n");
#endif
- return EXT2_ET_UNIMPLEMENTED;
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(data->offset + offset, channel->align) ||
+ !IS_ALIGNED(data->offset + offset + size, channel->align))
+ return EXT2_ET_UNIMPLEMENTED;
}

#ifndef NO_IO_CACHE