RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

["Ananiev, Leonid I" <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com>]

> invalidate_inode_pages2() has other callers.  I suspect with this
change
> we'll end up leaking EIOCBRETRY back to userspace.

EIOCBRETRY is used and caught already in do_sync_read() and
do_sync_readv_writev().

Below fixed patch against kernel 2.6.20.

>From Leonid Ananiev

Fix kernel bug when IO page is temporally busy:
invalidate_inode_pages2() returns EIOCBRETRY but not  EIO..

Signed-off-by: Leonid Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com>
---
--- linux-2.6.20/mm/truncate.c	2007-02-04 10:44:54.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.20p/mm/truncate.c	2007-02-08 11:38:11.000000000 -0800
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ static int do_launder_page(struct addres
  * Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped
prior to
  * invalidation.
  *
- * Returns -EIO if any pages could not be invalidated.
+ * Returns -EIOCBRETRY if any pages could not be invalidated.
  */
 int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
 				  pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct
 			}
 			ret = do_launder_page(mapping, page);
 			if (ret == 0 &&
!invalidate_complete_page2(mapping, page))
-				ret = -EIO;
+				ret = -EIOCBRETRY;
 			unlock_page(page);
 		}
 		pagevec_release(&pvec);
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(invalidate_inode_pages
  * Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped
prior to
  * invalidation.
  *
- * Returns -EIO if any pages could not be invalidated.
+ * Returns -EIOCBRETRY if any pages could not be invalidated.
  */
 int invalidate_inode_pages2(struct address_space *mapping)
 {