2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Nick Piggin commit 00266770b8b3a6a77f896ca501a0613739086832 upstream. In write_cache_pages, if ret signals a real error, but we still have some pages left in the pagevec, done would be set to 1, but the remaining pages would continue to be processed and ret will be overwritten in the process. It could easily be overwritten with success, and thus success will be returned even if there is an error. Thus the caller is told all writes succeeded, wheras in reality some did not. Fix this by bailing immediately if there is an error, and retaining the first error code. This is a data integrity bug. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/page-writeback.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -948,11 +948,26 @@ retry: ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data); - if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) { - unlock_page(page); - ret = 0; - } - if (ret || (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0)) + if (unlikely(ret)) { + if (ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) { + unlock_page(page); + ret = 0; + } else { + /* + * done_index is set past this page, + * so media errors will not choke + * background writeout for the entire + * file. This has consequences for + * range_cyclic semantics (ie. it may + * not be suitable for data integrity + * writeout). + */ + done = 1; + break; + } + } + + if (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0) done = 1; if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) { wbc->encountered_congestion = 1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/