Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] gfs2: convert to errseq_t based writeback error reporting for fsync

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 01:55:38PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> @@ -668,12 +668,14 @@ static int gfs2_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
>  		if (ret)
>  			return ret;
>  		if (gfs2_is_jdata(ip))
> -			filemap_write_and_wait(mapping);
> +			ret = file_write_and_wait(file);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
>  		gfs2_ail_flush(ip->i_gl, 1);
>  	}

Do we want to skip flushing the AIL if there was an error (possibly
previously encountered)?  I'd think we'd want to flush the AIL then report
the error, like this:

 		if (gfs2_is_jdata(ip))
-			filemap_write_and_wait(mapping);
+			ret = file_write_and_wait(file);
 		gfs2_ail_flush(ip->i_gl, 1);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
 	}