This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
quota: make dquot_quota_sync return errors from ->sync_fs
to the 5.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
quota-make-dquot_quota_sync-return-errors-from-sync_.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5080ad4169a80385f1d2e31663b338b3bb59babb
Author: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Jan 30 08:53:16 2022 -0800
quota: make dquot_quota_sync return errors from ->sync_fs
[ Upstream commit dd5532a4994bfda0386eb2286ec00758cee08444 ]
Strangely, dquot_quota_sync ignores the return code from the ->sync_fs
call, which means that quotacalls like Q_SYNC never see the error. This
doesn't seem right, so fix that.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index 22d904bde6ab9..a74aef99bd3d6 100644
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -690,9 +690,14 @@ int dquot_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type)
/* This is not very clever (and fast) but currently I don't know about
* any other simple way of getting quota data to disk and we must get
* them there for userspace to be visible... */
- if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
- sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
- sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
+ if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) {
+ ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
+ ret = sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
/*
* Now when everything is written we can discard the pagecache so
