The -EIO returned here can end up overriding whatever error is marked in
the address space. This means that an -ENOSPC error (AS_ENOSPC) can end
up being turned into -EIO if a page gets PG_error set on it during error
handling. Arguably, that's a bug in the writeback code, but...
Read errors are also tracked on a per page level using PG_error. Suppose
we have a read error on a page, and then that page is subsequently
dirtied by overwriting the whole page. Writeback doesn't clear PG_error,
so we can then end up successfully writing back that page and still
return -EIO on fsync.
Since the handling of this bit is somewhat inconsistent across
subsystems, let's just rely on marking the address space when there
are writeback errors.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlay...@redhat.com>
---
mm/filemap.c | 19 ++++---------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 3f9afded581b..2b0b4ff4668b 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -375,17 +375,16 @@ int filemap_flush(struct address_space *mapping)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_flush);
-static int __filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *mapping,
+static void __filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t start_byte, loff_t end_byte)
{
pgoff_t index = start_byte >> PAGE_SHIFT;
pgoff_t end = end_byte >> PAGE_SHIFT;
struct pagevec pvec;
int nr_pages;
- int ret = 0;
if (end_byte < start_byte)
- goto out;
+ return;
pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
while ((index <= end) &&
@@ -402,14 +401,10 @@ static int __filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space
*mapping,
continue;
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
- if (TestClearPageError(page))
- ret = -EIO;
}
pagevec_release(&pvec);
cond_resched();
}
-out:
- return ret;
}
/**
@@ -429,14 +424,8 @@ static int __filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space
*mapping,
int filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start_byte,
loff_t end_byte)
{
- int ret, ret2;
-
- ret = __filemap_fdatawait_range(mapping, start_byte, end_byte);
- ret2 = filemap_check_errors(mapping);
- if (!ret)
- ret = ret2;
-
- return ret;
+ __filemap_fdatawait_range(mapping, start_byte, end_byte);
+ return filemap_check_errors(mapping);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait_range);
--
2.9.3
