Commit 3d9b1cdd authored Jul 15, 2005 by Qu Fuping Committed by Dave Kleikamp Jul 15, 2005

JFS: fsync wrong behavior when I/O failure occurs



This is half of a patch that Qu Fuping submitted in April.  The first part
was applied to fs/mpage.c in 2.6.12-rc4.

jfs_fsync should return error, but it doesn't wait for the metadata page to
be uptodate, e.g.:
jfs_fsync->jfs_commit_inode->txCommit->diWrite->read_metapage->
__get_metapage->read_cache_page reads a page from disk. Because read is
async, when read_cache_page: err = filler(data, page), filler will not
return error, it just submits I/O request and returns. So, page is not
uptodate.  Checking only if(IS_ERROR(mp->page)) is not enough, we should
add "|| !PageUptodate(mp->page)"

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

parent 56d12549

fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ struct metapage __get_metapage(struct inode inode, unsigned long lblock,
		} else {
		page = read_cache_page(mapping, page_index,
		(filler_t *)mapping->a_ops->readpage, NULL);
		if (IS_ERR(page)) {
		if (IS_ERR(page) \|\| !PageUptodate(mp->page)) {
		jfs_err("read_cache_page failed!");
		return NULL;
		}

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