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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 9843b046c23..efe8caa3811 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3590,6 +3590,16 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, } if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { lock_buffer(bh); + + /* + * If the buffer has the write error flag, we have failed + * to write out another inode in the same block. In this + * case, we don't have to read the block because we may + * read the old inode data successfully. + */ + if (buffer_write_io_error(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) + set_buffer_uptodate(bh); + if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) { /* someone brought it uptodate while we waited */ unlock_buffer(bh); |