2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 54e968650855..876bc595d0f8 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2129,13 +2129,20 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
          * After a write we want buffered reads to be sure to go to disk to get
          * the new data.  We invalidate clean cached page from the region we're
          * about to write.  We do this *before* the write so that we can return
-         * -EIO without clobbering -EIOCBQUEUED from ->direct_IO().
+         * without clobbering -EIOCBQUEUED from ->direct_IO().
          */
         if (mapping->nrpages) {
                 written = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
                                         pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
-                if (written)
+                /*
+                 * If a page can not be invalidated, return 0 to fall back
+                 * to buffered write.
+                 */
+                if (written) {
+                        if (written == -EBUSY)
+                                return 0;
                         goto out;
+                }
         }
 
         written = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(WRITE, iocb, iov, pos, *nr_segs);
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 250505091d37..6650c1d878b4 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int do_launder_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
  * Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped prior to
  * invalidation.
  *
- * Returns -EIO if any pages could not be invalidated.
+ * Returns -EBUSY if any pages could not be invalidated.
  */
 int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
                                   pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
                         ret2 = do_launder_page(mapping, page);
                         if (ret2 == 0) {
                                 if (!invalidate_complete_page2(mapping, page))
-                                        ret2 = -EIO;
+                                        ret2 = -EBUSY;
                         }
                         if (ret2 < 0)
                                 ret = ret2;