The patch titled
     FAT: DIO-write fallback to normal buffered
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     fat-dio-write-fallback-to-normal-buffered.patch

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Subject: FAT: DIO-write fallback to normal buffered
From: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

If the DIO write on FAT is expanding the size, it will be fail by -EINVAL,
because FAT can't handle it now.

This patch fallback it to the normal buffered-write and would return
success.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 fs/fat/inode.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/fat/inode.c~fat-dio-write-fallback-to-normal-buffered 
fs/fat/inode.c
--- a/fs/fat/inode.c~fat-dio-write-fallback-to-normal-buffered
+++ a/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -173,10 +173,12 @@ static ssize_t fat_direct_IO(int rw, str
                 *
                 * But we must fill the remaining area or hole by nul for
                 * updating ->mmu_private.
+                *
+                * Return 0, and fallback to normal buffered write.
                 */
                loff_t size = offset + iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
                if (MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private < size)
-                       return -EINVAL;
+                       return 0;
        }
 
        /*
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

origin.patch
fix-the-reproducible-oops-in-scsi.patch
fat-dio-write-fallback-to-normal-buffered.patch

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