Since it returns errors in a way similar to fsync, have it use the same method for returning previously-reported writeback errors. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/sync.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index 11ba023434b1..89a03b5252d2 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -271,8 +271,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(fdatasync, unsigned int, fd) * * * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE and SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER will detect any - * I/O errors or ENOSPC conditions and will return those to the caller, after - * clearing the EIO and ENOSPC flags in the address_space. + * error condition that occurred prior to or after writeback, and will return + * that to the caller, while advancing the file's errseq_t cursor. Note that + * any errors returned here may have occurred in an area of the file that is + * not covered by the given range as most filesystems track writeback errors + * on a per-address_space basis * * It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's * metadata. So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of @@ -282,7 +285,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(fdatasync, unsigned int, fd) SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sync_file_range, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, nbytes, unsigned int, flags) { - int ret; + int ret, ret2; struct fd f; struct address_space *mapping; loff_t endbyte; /* inclusive */ @@ -356,7 +359,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sync_file_range, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, nbytes, if (flags & SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) ret = filemap_fdatawait_range(mapping, offset, endbyte); - + ret2 = filemap_report_wb_error(f.file); + if (!ret) + ret = ret2; out_put: fdput(f); out: -- 2.9.3