After we add async write error check in ext4_journal_get_write_access(), we can remove the partial fix for filesystem inconsistency problem caused by reading old data from disk, which in commit <9c83a923c67d> "ext4: don't read inode block if the buffer has a write error". Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index f68afc5c0b2d..79b73a86ef6c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4289,15 +4289,6 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { lock_buffer(bh); - /* - * If the buffer has the write error flag, we have failed - * to write out another inode in the same block. In this - * case, we don't have to read the block because we may - * read the old inode data successfully. - */ - if (buffer_write_io_error(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) - set_buffer_uptodate(bh); - if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) { /* someone brought it uptodate while we waited */ unlock_buffer(bh); -- 2.25.4