linux-kernel - [PATCHv5 06/13] zram: Clarify writeback

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20221109115047.2921851-7-senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Date:   Wed,  9 Nov 2022 20:50:40 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCHv5 06/13] zram: Clarify writeback_store() comment

Re-phrase writeback BIO error comment.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
---
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 560e2932021e..a5d2ce0bcd5d 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -772,8 +772,12 @@ static ssize_t writeback_store(struct device *dev,
 			zram_clear_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_IDLE);
 			zram_slot_unlock(zram, index);
 			/*
-			 * Return last IO error unless every IO were
-			 * not suceeded.
+			 * BIO errors are not fatal, we continue and simply
+			 * attempt to writeback the remaining objects (pages).
+			 * At the same time we need to signal user-space that
+			 * some writes (at least one, but also could be all of
+			 * them) were not successful and we do so by returning
+			 * the most recent BIO error.
 			 */
 			ret = err;
 			continue;
-- 
2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog