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jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback

Resetting this flag is almost certainly racy, and will be problematic
with some coming changes.

Make filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors return int, but not clear the flag(s).
Have jbd2 call it instead of filemap_fdatawait and don't attempt to
re-set the error flag if it fails.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Jeff Layton 8 years ago
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3 changed files with 19 additions and 15 deletions
  1. 4 12
      fs/jbd2/commit.c
  2. 1 1
      include/linux/fs.h
  3. 14 2
      mm/filemap.c

+ 4 - 12
fs/jbd2/commit.c

@@ -263,18 +263,10 @@ static int journal_finish_inode_data_buffers(journal_t *journal,
 			continue;
 		jinode->i_flags |= JI_COMMIT_RUNNING;
 		spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
-		err = filemap_fdatawait(jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping);
-		if (err) {
-			/*
-			 * Because AS_EIO is cleared by
-			 * filemap_fdatawait_range(), set it again so
-			 * that user process can get -EIO from fsync().
-			 */
-			mapping_set_error(jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping, -EIO);
-
-			if (!ret)
-				ret = err;
-		}
+		err = filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(
+				jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping);
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = err;
 		spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
 		jinode->i_flags &= ~JI_COMMIT_RUNNING;
 		smp_mb();

+ 1 - 1
include/linux/fs.h

@@ -2514,7 +2514,7 @@ extern int write_inode_now(struct inode *, int);
 extern int filemap_fdatawrite(struct address_space *);
 extern int filemap_flush(struct address_space *);
 extern int filemap_fdatawait(struct address_space *);
-extern void filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(struct address_space *);
+extern int filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(struct address_space *mapping);
 extern int filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *, loff_t lstart,
 				   loff_t lend);
 extern int filemap_write_and_wait(struct address_space *mapping);

+ 14 - 2
mm/filemap.c

@@ -309,6 +309,16 @@ int filemap_check_errors(struct address_space *mapping)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_check_errors);
 
+static int filemap_check_and_keep_errors(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+	/* Check for outstanding write errors */
+	if (test_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags))
+		return -EIO;
+	if (test_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags))
+		return -ENOSPC;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * __filemap_fdatawrite_range - start writeback on mapping dirty pages in range
  * @mapping:	address space structure to write
@@ -453,15 +463,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait_range);
  * call sites are system-wide / filesystem-wide data flushers: e.g. sync(2),
  * fsfreeze(8)
  */
-void filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(struct address_space *mapping)
+int filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
 	loff_t i_size = i_size_read(mapping->host);
 
 	if (i_size == 0)
-		return;
+		return 0;
 
 	__filemap_fdatawait_range(mapping, 0, i_size - 1);
+	return filemap_check_and_keep_errors(mapping);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors);
 
 /**
  * filemap_fdatawait - wait for all under-writeback pages to complete