[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 07/21] gfs2: Prevent direct-I/O write fallback errors from getting lost

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Jun 07 2021 - 12:21:53 EST


From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 43a511c44e58e357a687d61a20cf5ef1dc9e5a7c ]

When a direct I/O write falls entirely and falls back to buffered I/O and the
buffered I/O fails, the write failed with return value 0 instead of the error
number reported by the buffered I/O. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/gfs2/file.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/file.c b/fs/gfs2/file.c
index 143e7d518c5d..7c69486d556f 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/file.c
@@ -822,8 +822,11 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_file_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
current->backing_dev_info = inode_to_bdi(inode);
buffered = iomap_file_buffered_write(iocb, from, &gfs2_iomap_ops);
current->backing_dev_info = NULL;
- if (unlikely(buffered <= 0))
+ if (unlikely(buffered <= 0)) {
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = buffered;
goto out_unlock;
+ }

/*
* We need to ensure that the page cache pages are written to
--
2.30.2