vfs: make sync_filesystem return errors from ->sync_fs
authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:53:16 +0000 (08:53 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:38:50 +0000 (14:38 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 5679897eb104cec9e99609c3f045a0c20603da4c ]

Strangely, sync_filesystem ignores the return code from the ->sync_fs
call, which means that syscalls like syncfs(2) never see the error.
This doesn't seem right, so fix that.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
fs/sync.c

index 3ce8e21..c769001 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
  */
 int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-       int ret;
+       int ret = 0;
 
        /*
         * We need to be protected against the filesystem going from
@@ -52,15 +52,21 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb)
         * at a time.
         */
        writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC);
-       if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
-               sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0);
+       if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) {
+               ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0);
+               if (ret)
+                       return ret;
+       }
        ret = sync_blockdev_nowait(sb->s_bdev);
-       if (ret < 0)
+       if (ret)
                return ret;
 
        sync_inodes_sb(sb);
-       if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
-               sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
+       if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) {
+               ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
+               if (ret)
+                       return ret;
+       }
        return sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_filesystem);