From patchwork Sun Mar 29 17:28:13 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ext4: fix blkdev_issue_flush() failure handling Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:28:13 -0000 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz X-Patchwork-Id: 25290 Message-Id: <200903291928.14451.bzolnier@gmail.com> To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org blkdev_issue_flush() may fail (i.e. due to media error on FLUSH CACHE command execution) so its users should check for the return value. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- fs/ext4/fsync.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Index: b/fs/ext4/fsync.c =================================================================== --- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c +++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, st { struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal; - int ret = 0; + int ret = 0, tmp_ret; J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL); @@ -92,8 +92,11 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, st .nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */ }; ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc); - if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)) - blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL); + if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)) { + tmp_ret = blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL); + if (ret == 0 && tmp_ret < 0 && tmp_ret != -EOPNOTSUPP) + ret = tmp_ret; + } } out: return ret;