[patch 3/9] mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix

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In write_cache_pages, if ret signals a real error, but we still have some pages
left in the pagevec, done would be set to 1, but the remaining pages would
continue to be processed and ret will be overwritten in the process. It could
easily be overwritten with success, and thus success will be returned even if
there is an error. Thus the caller is told all writes succeeded, wheras in
reality some did not.

Fix this by bailing immediately if there is an error, and retaining the first
error code.

This is a data interity bug.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
---
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -944,12 +944,26 @@ retry:
 			}
 
 			ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data);
+			if (unlikely(ret)) {
+				if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
+					unlock_page(page);
+					ret = 0;
+				} else {
+					/*
+					 * done_index is set past this page,
+					 * so media errors will not choke
+					 * background writeout for the entire
+					 * file. This has consequences for
+					 * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may
+					 * not be suitable for data integrity
+					 * writeout).
+					 */
+					done = 1;
+					break;
+				}
+ 			}
 
-			if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) {
-				unlock_page(page);
-				ret = 0;
-			}
-			if (ret || (--nr_to_write <= 0))
+			if (--nr_to_write <= 0)
 				done = 1;
 			if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
 				wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;

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