Re: [PATCH] iomap: don't report direct-io retries to fserror

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:46:37 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> iomap's directio implementation has two magic errno codes that it uses
> to signal callers -- ENOTBLK tells the filesystem that it should retry
> a write with the pagecache; and EAGAIN tells the caller that pagecache
> flushing or invalidation failed and that it should try again.
> 
> Neither of these indicate data loss, so let's not report them.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] iomap: don't report direct-io retries to fserror
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/cd3c877d0468