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Message-Id: <1341870307-11803-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
Date:	Mon,  9 Jul 2012 23:45:06 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] jbd: Check return value of blkdev_issue_flush()

blkdev_issue_flush() can fail. Make sure the error gets properly propagated.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/jbd/recovery.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

 I have queued this patch in my tree and plan to send it to Linus in the
next merge window.

diff --git a/fs/jbd/recovery.c b/fs/jbd/recovery.c
index 008bf06..a748fe2 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/recovery.c
@@ -265,8 +265,11 @@ int journal_recover(journal_t *journal)
 	if (!err)
 		err = err2;
 	/* Flush disk caches to get replayed data on the permanent storage */
-	if (journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER)
-		blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+	if (journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER) {
+		err2 = blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+		if (!err)
+			err = err2;
+	}
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
1.7.1

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