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We've got two issues with the non-regular file handling for non-blocking IO: 1) We don't want to re-do a short read in full for a non-regular file, as we can't just read the data again. 2) For non-regular files that don't support non-blocking IO attempts, we need to punt to async context even if the file is opened as non-blocking. Otherwise the caller always gets -EAGAIN. Add two new request flags to handle these cases. One is just a cache of the inode S_ISREG() status, the other tells io_uring that we always need to punt this request to async context, even if REQ_F_NOWAIT is set. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Hrvoje Zeba <zeba.hrvoje@gmail.com> Tested-by: Hrvoje Zeba <zeba.hrvoje@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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