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-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c16
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 7c864363002..9940895f734 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2511,21 +2511,17 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
}
retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, offset, nr_segs);
- if (retval)
- goto out;
/*
* Finally, try again to invalidate clean pages which might have been
- * faulted in by get_user_pages() if the source of the write was an
- * mmap()ed region of the file we're writing. That's a pretty crazy
- * thing to do, so we don't support it 100%. If this invalidation
- * fails and we have -EIOCBQUEUED we ignore the failure.
+ * cached by non-direct readahead, or faulted in by get_user_pages()
+ * if the source of the write was an mmap'ed region of the file
+ * we're writing. Either one is a pretty crazy thing to do,
+ * so we don't support it 100%. If this invalidation
+ * fails, tough, the write still worked...
*/
if (rw == WRITE && mapping->nrpages) {
- int err = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
- offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
- if (err && retval >= 0)
- retval = err;
+ invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping, offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
}
out:
return retval;