> I think we still want to run dio_cleanup() if do_direct_IO() failed? 
> Otherwise we can leak pages.
> 
> And there's nothing special about EFAULT or ENOMEM here: if do_direct_IO()
> returns any error then that's it: we bale out, yes?
> 

Yes, I think we'll out from here if get EFAULT/ENOMEM error, also maybe -EIO
return, return diretly should ok.

> In fact I'm suspecting that this is what the code in there used to do. 
> Something like:
> 
>       for (...) {
>               ...
>               ret = do_direct_IO(...);
>               ...
>               if (ret) {
>                       dio_dleanup(dio);
>                       break
>               }
>       }
>       return ret;
> 

Yes, we need call dio_cleanup() to release page cache, I lost it.

However, we need do more while return -ENOTBLK, right?
so I think the patch maybe like following:


--- linux-2.6.22/fs/direct-io.c.orig    2007-07-27 14:39:15.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.22/fs/direct-io.c 2007-07-27 15:08:58.000000000 +0800
@@ -1032,18 +1032,19 @@ direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *i
                                        blkbits);
 
                if (ret) {
+                       if (ret == -ENOTBLK && (rw & WRITE)) {
+                               /*
+                                * The remaining part of the request will be
+                                * be handled by buffered I/O when we return
+                                */
+                               ret = 0;
+                               break;
+                       }
                        dio_cleanup(dio);
-                       break;
+                       goto out;
                }
        } /* end iovec loop */
 
-       if (ret == -ENOTBLK && (rw & WRITE)) {
-               /*
-                * The remaining part of the request will be
-                * be handled by buffered I/O when we return
-                */
-               ret = 0;
-       }
        /*
         * There may be some unwritten disk at the end of a part-written
         * fs-block-sized block.  Go zero that now.




> _
> 
> However I'd like to ask you guys to carefully review and test that please.
> 
Gurudas, would you please give more test of this patch?

Thanks, 
Joe
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