linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xfs: Fix wrong return value of xfs_file_aio

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:21:48 -0500
From:	Alex Elder <aelder@....com>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>,
	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	<jack@...e.cz>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, <xfs@....sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: Fix wrong return value of xfs_file_aio_write

On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 14:03 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> The fsync prototype change commit 02c24a82187d accidentally overwrote
> the ssize_t return value of xfs_file_aio_write with 0 for SYNC type
> writes. Fix this by checking if an error occured when calling
> xfs_file_fsync and only change the return value in this case.
> In addition xfs_file_fsync actually returns a normal negative error, so
> fix this, too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Finally looking at this I noticed the same thing Christoph
did; thanks for fixing both.  Your change got committed
yesterday via Al Viro's VFS tree.

					-Alex

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