3.2.72-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: David Jeffery <djeffery@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c9eb256eda4420c06bb10f5e8fbdbe1a34bc98e0 upstream. There is an issue with xfs's error reporting in some cases of I/O partially failing and partially succeeding. Calls like fsync() can report success even though not all I/O was successful in partial-failure cases such as one disk of a RAID0 array being offline. The issue can occur when there are more than one bio per xfs_ioend struct. Each call to xfs_end_bio() for a bio completing will write a value to ioend->io_error. If a successful bio completes after any failed bio, no error is reported do to it writing 0 over the error code set by any failed bio. The I/O error information is now lost and when the ioend is completed only success is reported back up the filesystem stack. xfs_end_bio() should only set ioend->io_error in the case of BIO_UPTODATE being clear. ioend->io_error is initialized to 0 at allocation so only needs to be updated by a failed bio. Also check that ioend->io_error is 0 so that the first error reported will be the error code returned. Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c @@ -365,7 +365,8 @@ xfs_end_bio( xfs_ioend_t *ioend = bio->bi_private; ASSERT(atomic_read(&bio->bi_cnt) >= 1); - ioend->io_error = test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags) ? 0 : error; + if (!ioend->io_error && !test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags)) + ioend->io_error = error; /* Toss bio and pass work off to an xfsdatad thread */ bio->bi_private = NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html