Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: return symlink writeback errors

[Chao Yu]

On 8/10/26 21:38, Wenjie Qi wrote:
> F2FS writes long symlink data with page_symlink() and then flushes the
> symlink mapping to reduce the chance of exposing a broken symlink.
> 
> That flush result is currently ignored. If the writeback fails, symlink()
> still returns success even though the symlink is not durable and the same
> operation can already surface -EIO through syncfs().
> 
> Return the writeback error to userspace and skip the dirsync flush once the
> symlink data flush has failed.
> 
> Fixes: d0cae97cb600 ("f2fs: flush symlink path to avoid broken symlink after POR")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,