Hi Andrew,
Thanks again for finding the fix to the problem I reported.
Can you tell me when I might expect this fix to show up in
2.6.20-rc?
Thanks,
Mike
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:21:57 -0600
> Michael Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Testing on my ia64 system reveals that this patch introduces a
>> data integrity error for direct i/o to a block device. Device
>> errors which result in i/o failure do not propagate to the
>> process issuing direct i/o to the device.
>>
>> This can be reproduced by doing writes to a fibre channel block
>> device and then disabling the switch port connecting the host
>> adapter to the switch.
>>
>
> Does this fix it?
>
> <thwaps Ken>
> <thwaps compiler>
> <adds new entry to Documentation/SubmitChecklist>
>
> diff -puN fs/block_dev.c~a fs/block_dev.c
> --- a/fs/block_dev.c~a
> +++ a/fs/block_dev.c
> @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static int blk_end_aio(struct bio *bio,
> iocb->ki_nbytes = -EIO;
>
> if (atomic_dec_and_test(bio_count)) {
> - if (iocb->ki_nbytes < 0)
> + if ((long)iocb->ki_nbytes < 0)
> aio_complete(iocb, iocb->ki_nbytes, 0);
> else
> aio_complete(iocb, iocb->ki_left, 0);
> _
>
>
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