mtd: Fix issue where write_cached_data() fails but write() still returns success
authorXiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Fri, 20 Mar 2020 03:15:11 +0000 (11:15 +0800)
committerMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:02:30 +0000 (23:02 +0100)
commit4e4a9a828af29785fad12ecc11583769e1282024
tree9b992e2e78e1ce48d37ff070d14caca0cc248a06
parentf1ffdbfad00a3c424cadfd307b5bb9c466638532
mtd: Fix issue where write_cached_data() fails but write() still returns success

The following sequence is problematic:

mtdblock_flush()
    -->write_cached_data()
        --->erase_write()
        mtdblock: erase of region [0x40000, 0x20000] on "xxx" failed

Problem is: mtdblock_flush() always returns 0. Indeed, even if
write_cached_data() fails and data is not written to the device,
syscall_write() still returns success. Avoid this situation by
actually returning the error coming out of write_cached_data().

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/1584674111-101462-1-git-send-email-nixiaoming@huawei.com
drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c