From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Strangely, sync_filesystem ignores the return code from the ->sync_fs call, which means that syscalls like syncfs(2) never see the error. This doesn't seem right, so fix that. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/sync.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index 3ce8e2137f31..c7690016453e 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ */ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb) { - int ret; + int ret = 0; /* * We need to be protected against the filesystem going from @@ -52,15 +52,21 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb) * at a time. */ writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC); - if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) - sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0); + if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) { + ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0); + if (ret) + return ret; + } ret = sync_blockdev_nowait(sb->s_bdev); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret) return ret; sync_inodes_sb(sb); - if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) - sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1); + if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) { + ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1); + if (ret) + return ret; + } return sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_filesystem);