The patch titled mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-write_cache_pages-writepage-error-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> 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 integrity bug. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~mm-write_cache_pages-writepage-error-fix mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-write_cache_pages-writepage-error-fix +++ a/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; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix-fix.patch radix-tree-gang-set-if-tagged-operation.patch reiser4.patch fs-symlink-write_begin-allocation-context-fix-reiser4-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html