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mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:39:06 +0000 (14:39 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:58:59 +0000 (15:58 -0800)
commit4b8bbcc09f8f03afabadfda160ce488004235d08
treee10b01330e928b6d3eaa1040560fe133ddba6654
parent88475c50dba6a968bd373b28bcda9a508daf6499
mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix

In write_cache_pages, if ret signals a real error, but we still have some
pages left in the pagevec, done would be set to 1, but the remaining pages
would continue to be processed and ret will be overwritten in the process.

It could easily be overwritten with success, and thus success will be
returned even if there is an error.  Thus the caller is told all writes
succeeded, wheras in reality some did not.

Fix this by bailing immediately if there is an error, and retaining the
first error code.

This is a data integrity bug.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page-writeback.c