On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 11:29:28AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > Currently we don't clear the address space error when there is a -EIO > error on fsynci, due to writeback initiation failure. If writes fail fsync > with -EIO and the mapping is flagged with an AS_EIO or AS_ENOSPC error, > then we can end up returning errors on two fsync calls, even when a > write between them succeeded (or there was no write). > > Ensure that we also clear out any mapping errors when initiating > writeback fails with -EIO in filemap_write_and_wait and > filemap_write_and_wait_range. > > Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/filemap.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c > index 1694623a6289..fc123b9833e1 100644 > --- a/mm/filemap.c > +++ b/mm/filemap.c > @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait); > > int filemap_write_and_wait(struct address_space *mapping) > { > - int err = 0; > + int err; > > if ((!dax_mapping(mapping) && mapping->nrpages) || > (dax_mapping(mapping) && mapping->nrexceptional)) { > @@ -499,10 +499,18 @@ int filemap_write_and_wait(struct address_space *mapping) > * But the -EIO is special case, it may indicate the worst > * thing (e.g. bug) happened, so we avoid waiting for it. > */ > - if (err != -EIO) { > + if (likely(err != -EIO)) { The above two cleanup changes were made only to filemap_write_and_wait(), but should also probably be done to filemap_write_and_wait_range() to keep them as consistent as possible?