On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:48:52AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 14:50 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Right now we check for errors on super block in syncfs().
> >
> > ret2 = errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_wb_err, &f.file->f_sb_err);
> >
> > overlayfs does not update sb->s_wb_err and it is tracked on upper filesystem.
> > So provide a superblock operation to check errors so that filesystem
> > can provide override generic method and provide its own method to
> > check for writeback errors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/sync.c | 5 ++++-
> > include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
> > index b5fb83a734cd..57e43a16dfca 100644
> > --- a/fs/sync.c
> > +++ b/fs/sync.c
> > @@ -176,7 +176,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(syncfs, int, fd)
> > ret = sync_filesystem(sb);
> > up_read(&sb->s_umount);
> >
> >
> > - ret2 = errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_wb_err, &f.file->f_sb_err);
> > + if (sb->s_op->errseq_check_advance)
> > + ret2 = sb->s_op->errseq_check_advance(sb, f.file);
> > + else
> > + ret2 = errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_wb_err, &f.file->f_sb_err);
> >
> >
> > fdput(f);
> > return ret ? ret : ret2;
> > diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> > index 8667d0cdc71e..4297b6127adf 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> > @@ -1965,6 +1965,7 @@ struct super_operations {
> > struct shrink_control *);
> > long (*free_cached_objects)(struct super_block *,
> > struct shrink_control *);
> > + int (*errseq_check_advance)(struct super_block *, struct file *);
> > };
> >
> >
> > /*
>
> Also, the other super_operations generally don't take a superblock
> pointer when you pass in a different fs object pointer. This should
> probably just take a struct file * and then the operation can chase
> pointers to the superblock from there.
Ok, I will drop super_block * argument and just pass in "struct file *".
Vivek
>
> --
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
