Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 5 authors, 2025-08-05

Re: [PATCH 3/7] block: simplify direct io validity check

From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-08-04 17:11:05
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 08:55:36AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
On 8/2/25 01:47, Keith Busch wrote:
quoted
  static bool blkdev_dio_invalid(struct block_device *bdev, struct kiocb *iocb,
  				struct iov_iter *iter)
  {
-	return iocb->ki_pos & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1) ||
-		!bdev_iter_is_aligned(bdev, iter);
+	return (iocb->ki_pos | iov_iter_count(iter)) &
+			(bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1);
Bitwise or? Sure?
Yep, this is correct. We need to return an error if either the size or
offset are not aligned to the block size. "Or"ing the two together gets
us a single check against the logical block size mask instead of doing
each individually. 
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