[PATCH] Fix IO error reporting on fsync()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:10:19 +0000 (00:10 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:18:46 +0000 (08:18 -0700)
When IO error happens on metadata buffer, buffer is freed from memory and
later fsync() is called, filesystems like ext2 fail to report EIO.  We

solve the problem by introducing a pointer to associated address space into
the buffer_head.  When a buffer is removed from a list of metadata buffers
associated with an address space, IO error is transferred from the buffer to
the address space, so that fsync can later report it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/buffer.c
include/linux/buffer_head.h

diff --cc fs/buffer.c
Simple merge
Simple merge