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loop: fix the the direct I/O support check when used on top of block devices
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:59:01 +0000 (18:59 +0100)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:20:52 +0000 (08:20 -0700)
commitbaa7d536077dcdfe2b70c476a8873d1745d3de0f
tree1e5d7c0416c8c363035e004195419c7b3d29b35b
parent49e60333d743ae32db3bdde2f93bc818482dd741
loop: fix the the direct I/O support check when used on top of block devices

__loop_update_dio only checks the alignment requirement for block backed
file systems, but misses them for the case where the loop device is
created directly on top of another block device.  Due to this creating
a loop device with default option plus the direct I/O flag on a > 512 byte
sector size file system will lead to incorrect I/O being submitted to the
lower block device and a lot of error from the lock layer.  This can
be seen with xfstests generic/563.

Fix the code in __loop_update_dio by factoring the alignment check into
a helper, and calling that also for the struct block_device of a block
device inode.

Also remove the TODO comment talking about dynamically switching between
buffered and direct I/O, which is a would be a recipe for horrible
performance and occasional data loss.

Fixes: 2e5ab5f379f9 ("block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240117175901.871796-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/block/loop.c