Re: [PATCH v4 06/27] fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed May 10 2017 - 08:48:46 EST


On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 11:49:09AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> ext2 currently does a test+clear of the AS_EIO flag, which is
> is problematic for some coming changes.
>
> What we really need to do instead is call filemap_check_errors
> in __generic_file_fsync after syncing out the buffers. That
> will be sufficient for this case, and help other callers detect
> these errors properly as well.
>
> With that, we don't need to twiddle it in ext2.
>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>