1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 89cf614a3271..5b851315eeed 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1613,3 +1613,44 @@ u64 inode_query_iversion(struct inode *inode)
 	return cur >> I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_query_iversion);
+
+ssize_t direct_write_fallback(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
+		ssize_t direct_written, ssize_t buffered_written)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping = iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping;
+	loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos - buffered_written;
+	loff_t end = iocb->ki_pos - 1;
+	int err;
+
+	/*
+	 * If the buffered write fallback returned an error, we want to return
+	 * the number of bytes which were written by direct I/O, or the error
+	 * code if that was zero.
+	 *
+	 * Note that this differs from normal direct-io semantics, which will
+	 * return -EFOO even if some bytes were written.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(buffered_written < 0)) {
+		if (direct_written)
+			return direct_written;
+		return buffered_written;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * We need to ensure that the page cache pages are written to disk and
+	 * invalidated to preserve the expected O_DIRECT semantics.
+	 */
+	err = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, end);
+	if (err < 0) {
+		/*
+		 * We don't know how much we wrote, so just return the number of
+		 * bytes which were direct-written
+		 */
+		if (direct_written)
+			return direct_written;
+		return err;
+	}
+	invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, pos >> PAGE_SHIFT, end >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	return direct_written + buffered_written;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(direct_write_fallback);