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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 06/27] fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 11:49:09AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> ext2 currently does a test+clear of the AS_EIO flag, which is
> is problematic for some coming changes.
>
> What we really need to do instead is call filemap_check_errors
> in __generic_file_fsync after syncing out the buffers. That
> will be sufficient for this case, and help other callers detect
> these errors properly as well.
>
> With that, we don't need to twiddle it in ext2.
>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

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