Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 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 <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext4/fsync.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> 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;
As long as we keep the call there this is probably good, but after
talking w/ Chris Mason, I think the call is extraneous anyway and should
probably just be removed...
-Eric
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