Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758025AbZC2Ras (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:30:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753226AbZC2RaQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:30:16 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.191]:52378 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752047AbZC2RaN (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:30:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=ZXz91hqlMwNDNwGN/EwH7CIk4rSIlcZpDQguj811y1isYXWVGtxlFRRMtHB/D7752w IQlgDqqWdvBgynb9/ovA/V16GZhMyfkV1nLYKeZ7fz7cTnWfX9BytVnl5pLPZN+apdHc irUcU0+KBW5QdSKGNm4+rIlGypfLaaN1Mapr4= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix blkdev_issue_flush() failure handling Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:28:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.1 (Linux/2.6.29-next-20090327-dirty; KDE/4.2.1; i686; ; ) Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903291928.14451.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1398 Lines: 40 blkdev_issue_flush() may fail (i.e. due to media error on FLUSH CACHE command execution) so its users should check for the return value. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- fs/ext4/fsync.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: b/fs/ext4/fsync.c =================================================================== --- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c +++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, st { struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal; - int ret = 0; + int ret = 0, tmp_ret; J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL); @@ -92,8 +92,11 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, st .nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */ }; ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc); - if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)) - blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL); + if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)) { + tmp_ret = blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL); + if (ret == 0 && tmp_ret < 0 && tmp_ret != -EOPNOTSUPP) + ret = tmp_ret; + } } out: return ret; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/