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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)
commit00266770b8b3a6a77f896ca501a0613739086832
treee10b01330e928b6d3eaa1040560fe133ddba6654
parentbd19e012f6fd3b7309689165ea865cbb7bb88c1e
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