ext4: prevent sleeping allocation in NOWAIT write path

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Block allocation requires journal access which may sleep, violating
NOWAIT semantics. Return -EAGAIN early when IOMAP_NOWAIT is set,
allowing the caller to retry without the NOWAIT constraint.

This ensures that write paths using IOMAP_NOWAIT (e.g., DIO with
RWF_NOWAIT) will not block on journal operations when blocks need
to be allocated.

Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260611163441.2431805-1-libaokun@linux.alibaba.com?part=1
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260629113827.4074335-2-libaokun@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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Baokun Li 2026-06-29 19:38:22 +08:00 • committed by Theodore Ts'o

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