Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:45:38 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] zonefs: do not use append if device does not support it | From | Damien Le Moal <> |
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On 6/27/23 12:45, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 06:47:52PM +0200, Andreas Hindborg wrote: >> From: "Andreas Hindborg (Samsung)" <nmi@metaspace.dk> >> >> Zonefs will try to use `zonefs_file_dio_append()` for direct sync writes even if >> device `max_zone_append_sectors` is zero. This will cause the IO to fail as the >> io vector is truncated to zero. It also causes a call to >> `invalidate_inode_pages2_range()` with end set to UINT_MAX, which is probably >> not intentional. Thus, do not use append when device does not support it. > > How do you even manage to hit this code? Zone Append is a mandatory > feature and driver need to check it is available.
ublk driver probably is missing that check ? I have not looked at the code for zone support.
But thinking of it, we probably would be better off having a generic check for "q->limits.max_zone_append_sectors != 0" in blk_revalidate_disk_zones().
-- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research
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