linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs: fix lost error code in dio

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Date:   Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:02:22 +0100
From:   Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@...zon.de>
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CC:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Torsten Mehlan <tomeh@...zon.de>,
        "Uwe Dannowski" <uwed@...zon.de>, Amit Shah <aams@...zon.de>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: fix lost error code in dio_complete

On 11/8/18 7:58 PM, Maximilian Heyne wrote:
> commit e259221763a40403d5bb232209998e8c45804ab8 ("fs: simplify the
> generic_write_sync prototype") reworked callers of generic_write_sync(),
> and ended up dropping the error return for the directio path. Prior to
> that commit, in dio_complete(), an error would be bubbled up the stack,
> but after that commit, errors passed on to dio_complete were eaten up.
>
> This was reported on the list earlier, and a fix was proposed in
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160921141539.GA17898@infradead.org/, but
> never followed up with.  We recently hit this bug in our testing where
> fencing io errors, which were previously erroring out with EIO, were
> being returned as success operations after this commit.
I just wanted to follow up on this. Has anyone picked up this patch?



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