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Re: v4.4-rc4 regression with direct-io

To: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: v4.4-rc4 regression with direct-io
From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 16:14:38 -0700
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 09:51:09PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 02:39:02PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > Hey Jan,
> > 
> > In my test setup this commit:
> > 
> > 74cedf9b6c60 ("direct-io: Fix negative return from dio read beyond eof")
> > 
> > causes a regression with XFS and the test generic/113.  The test used to
> > pass, but with the above mentioned commit it just hangs indefinitely.
> > 
> > This commit went in between v4.4-rc3 and v4.4-rc4, and it looks like it was
> > marked for stable?
> 
> See the tip of vfs.git#for-linus for fix...

I've confirmed that this fixes my test case.  Thanks!

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