linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd:Fix issue where write_cached_data() fails but write() still returns success

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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:05:33 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>, miquel.raynal@...tlin.com,
        richard@....at, vigneshr@...com
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, zhangweimin12@...wei.com,
        wangle6@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd:Fix issue where write_cached_data() fails but write() still returns success

On Fri, 2020-03-20 at 03:15:11 UTC, Xiaoming Ni wrote:
> mtdblock_flush()
> 	-->write_cached_data()
> 		--->erase_write()
> 		     mtdblock: erase of region [0x40000, 0x20000] on "xxx" failed
> 
> Because mtdblock_flush() always returns 0,
> even if write_cached_data() fails and data is not written to the device,
> syscall_write() still returns success
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel