Commit 3e69426d authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe

io_uring: punt even fadvise() WILLNEED to async context

Andres correctly points out that read-ahead can block, if it needs to
read in meta data (or even just through the page cache page allocations).
Play it safe for now and just ensure WILLNEED is also punted to async
context.

While in there, allow the file settings hints from non-blocking
context. They don't need to start/do IO, and we can safely do them
inline.

Fixes: 4840e418 ("io_uring: add IORING_OP_FADVISE")
Reported-by: default avatarAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 1a417f4e
......@@ -2730,9 +2730,16 @@ static int io_fadvise(struct io_kiocb *req, struct io_kiocb **nxt,
struct io_fadvise *fa = &req->fadvise;
int ret;
/* DONTNEED may block, others _should_ not */
if (fa->advice == POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED && force_nonblock)
return -EAGAIN;
if (force_nonblock) {
switch (fa->advice) {
case POSIX_FADV_NORMAL:
case POSIX_FADV_RANDOM:
case POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL:
break;
default:
return -EAGAIN;
}
}
ret = vfs_fadvise(req->file, fa->offset, fa->len, fa->advice);
if (ret < 0)
......
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