[PATCH 5/5] zonefs: drain in-flight DIO before buffered writes

From: Jiale Yao

Date: Sun Oct 25 2026 - 08:41:54 EST


Conventional zone files allow both direct and buffered writes. An
asynchronous direct write can remain active after its submitting thread
releases the inode lock. A buffered write can then dirty page cache before
direct I/O completion performs post-write invalidation, causing the
invalidation to fail and record -EIO in the mapping error sequence.

After taking the exclusive inode lock, wait for active DIO before running
buffered write checks. Return -EAGAIN when an IOCB_NOWAIT request would
otherwise block.

Fixes: 4008e2a0b01a ("zonefs: Reorganize code")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jiale Yao <yaojiale02@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/zonefs/file.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/zonefs/file.c b/fs/zonefs/file.c
index 5b34849be7a2..8635a795c24c 100644
--- a/fs/zonefs/file.c
+++ b/fs/zonefs/file.c
@@ -576,6 +576,14 @@ static ssize_t zonefs_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
inode_lock(inode);
}

+ if (atomic_read(&inode->i_dio_count)) {
+ if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) {
+ ret = -EAGAIN;
+ goto inode_unlock;
+ }
+ inode_dio_wait(inode);
+ }
+
ret = zonefs_write_checks(iocb, from);
if (ret <= 0)
goto inode_unlock;
--
2.34.1