From: "Darrick J. Wong" djwong@kernel.org
commit 5679897eb104cec9e99609c3f045a0c20603da4c upstream.
[backport to 5.10 only differs in __sync_blockdev helper]
Strangely, sync_filesystem ignores the return code from the ->sync_fs call, which means that syscalls like syncfs(2) never see the error. This doesn't seem right, so fix that.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Acked-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/sync.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ */ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb) { - int ret; + int ret = 0;
/* * We need to be protected against the filesystem going from @@ -51,15 +51,21 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block * * at a time. */ writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC); - if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) - sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0); + if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) { + ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0); + if (ret) + return ret; + } ret = __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, 0); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret) return ret;
sync_inodes_sb(sb); - if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) - sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1); + if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) { + ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1); + if (ret) + return ret; + } return __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, 1); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_filesystem);