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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: xfs_end_io_direct() with negative size?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:43:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DCC1B0.70003@oracle.com> (raw)


So, I was lost in fs/direct-io.c chasing yet another bug when I noticed
that a recent unrelated change might have changed the semantics of the
end_io() call.

   http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/?cs=34c151cf341f

Notice how that changes the aio path to set 'transferred' to -EIO based
on dio->io_error before calling dio_complete() instead of after, like
the sync path does with its possibly negative 'ret'.

So it looks like xfs_end_io_direct() can now get a -ve size if, say,
someone unplugs a drive part-way through a dio+aio write.  There's an
ASSERT() in there that makes me wonder if this is something we should be
worrying about.

- z

             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-11 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-11 17:43 Zach Brown [this message]
2006-08-14  0:22 ` xfs_end_io_direct() with negative size? Nathan Scott

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