On 2022-04-18 22:31, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 01:45:06PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 02:10:46PM +0200, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
I noticed that our autobot recently backported parts of a series which
fixed XFS syncfs error handling [1]. Unfortunately - due to missing
requirements - it only managed to merge those patches which do not
actually fix anything.
This can be repaired by applying the prerequisites and then the missing
parts of the original series, namely in order:
9a208ba5c9af fs: remove __sync_filesystem
70164eb6ccb7 block: remove __sync_blockdev
1e03a36bdff4 block: simplify the block device syncing code
5679897eb104 vfs: make sync_filesystem return errors from ->sync_fs
2d86293c7075 xfs: return errors in xfs_fs_sync_fs
With all that we could also put a cherry on top and merge:
b97cca3ba909 xfs: only bother with sync_filesystem during readonly remount
but that's just a touchup and not a real bugfix, so probably optional.
Can we get an ack from the XFS developers that this is ok to do?
Without that, we can't apply xfs patches to the stable trees.
You might consider adding these two other patches:
2719c7160dcf ("vfs: make freeze_super abort when sync_filesystem returns error")
dd5532a4994b ("quota: make dquot_quota_sync return errors from ->sync_fs")
to the pile, but otherwise that looks ok to me.
--D
Those two are the ones from the series that were already merged into 5.15.x,
some time back in February. Looks like we have them all.
cheers
Holger
