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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-08-17 09:58:17 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-08-17 09:58:17 -0400
commita4a39040e9dacb5fa28b7ee7f842237ee534e7bf (patch)
tree141c76f177f8625db5a394f0b3f294e35e383b8d /fs/ext4
parent316e4cfd0b0b4ce846fd0fbda2deebcffbd3e440 (diff)
ext4: check return value of blkdev_issue_flush()
blkdev_issue_flush() can fail; make sure the error gets properly propagated. This is a port of the equivalent ext3 patch from commit 44f4f729e7a1. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/fsync.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index 2a1dcea4f12..323eb15c2d9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
- int ret;
+ int ret, err;
tid_t commit_tid;
bool needs_barrier = false;
@@ -255,8 +255,11 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
needs_barrier = true;
jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid);
ret = jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);
- if (needs_barrier)
- blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+ if (needs_barrier) {
+ err = blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = err;
+ }
out:
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
trace_ext4_sync_file_exit(inode, ret);