From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
The data fork scrubber calls filemap_write_and_wait to flush dirty pages
and delalloc reservations out to disk prior to checking the data fork's
extent mappings. Unfortunately, this means that scrub can consume the
EIO/ENOSPC errors that would otherwise have stayed around in the address
space until (we hope) the writer application calls fsync to persist data
and collect errors. The end result is that programs that wrote to a
file might never see the error code and proceed as if nothing were
wrong.
xfs_scrub is not in a position to notify file writers about the
writeback failure, and it's only here to check metadata, not file
contents. Therefore, if writeback fails, we should stuff the error code
back into the address space so that an fsync by the writer application
can pick that up.
Fixes: 99d9d8d05da2 ("xfs: scrub inode block mappings")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: explain why it's ok to keep going even if writeback fails
---
fs/xfs/scrub/bmap.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/bmap.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/bmap.c
index 7badd6dfe544..0d7062b7068b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/bmap.c
@@ -47,7 +47,24 @@ xchk_setup_inode_bmap(
sc->sm->sm_type == XFS_SCRUB_TYPE_BMBTD) {
inode_dio_wait(VFS_I(sc->ip));
error = filemap_write_and_wait(VFS_I(sc->ip)->i_mapping);
- if (error)
+ if (error == -ENOSPC || error == -EIO) {
+ /*
+ * If writeback hits EIO or ENOSPC, reflect it back
+ * into the address space mapping so that a writer
+ * program calling fsync to look for errors will still
+ * capture the error.
+ *
+ * However, we continue into the extent mapping checks
+ * because write failures do not necessarily imply
+ * anything about the correctness of the file metadata.
+ * The metadata and the file data could be on
+ * completely separate devices; a media failure might
+ * only affect a subset of the disk, etc. We properly
+ * account for delalloc extents, so leaving them in
+ * memory is fine.
+ */
+ mapping_set_error(VFS_I(sc->ip)->i_mapping, error);
+ } else if (error)
goto out;
}
