Merge branch 'master' into test

* master: (688 commits)
  dt-bindings: mailbox: qcom: Document the APCS clock binding
  mailbox: qcom: Create APCS child device for clock controller
  mailbox: qcom: Convert APCS IPC driver to use regmap
  KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
  KVM/x86: Add IBPB support
  KVM/x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX
  pinctrl: remove include file from <linux/device.h>
  firmware: dmi: handle missing DMI data gracefully
  firmware: dmi_scan: Fix handling of empty DMI strings
  firmware: dmi_scan: Drop dmi_initialized
  firmware: dmi: Optimize dmi_matches
  Revert "defer call to mem_cgroup_sk_alloc()"
  soreuseport: fix mem leak in reuseport_add_sock()
  net: qlge: use memmove instead of skb_copy_to_linear_data
  net: qed: use correct strncpy() size
  net: cxgb4: avoid memcpy beyond end of source buffer
  cls_u32: add missing RCU annotation.
  r8152: set rx mode early when linking on
  ...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 0eff5b761c6e..c94780075b04 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3768,10 +3768,18 @@ static ssize_t ext4_direct_IO_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
 		/* Credits for sb + inode write */
 		handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
 		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
-			/* This is really bad luck. We've written the data
-			 * but cannot extend i_size. Bail out and pretend
-			 * the write failed... */
-			ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+			/*
+			 * We wrote the data but cannot extend
+			 * i_size. Bail out. In async io case, we do
+			 * not return error here because we have
+			 * already submmitted the corresponding
+			 * bio. Returning error here makes the caller
+			 * think that this IO is done and failed
+			 * resulting in race with bio's completion
+			 * handler.
+			 */
+			if (!ret)
+				ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
 			if (inode->i_nlink)
 				ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);