[PATCH 4.2 067/120] xfs: return errors from partial I/O failures to files

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-09-19T18:09:41Z

From: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>

commit c9eb256eda4420c06bb10f5e8fbdbe1a34bc98e0 upstream.

There is an issue with xfs's error reporting in some cases of I/O partially
failing and partially succeeding. Calls like fsync() can report success even
though not all I/O was successful in partial-failure cases such as one disk of
a RAID0 array being offline.

The issue can occur when there are more than one bio per xfs_ioend struct.
Each call to xfs_end_bio() for a bio completing will write a value to
ioend->io_error. If a successful bio completes after any failed bio, no
error is reported do to it writing 0 over the error code set by any failed bio.
The I/O error information is now lost and when the ioend is completed
only success is reported back up the filesystem stack.

xfs_end_bio() should only set ioend->io_error in the case of BIO_UPTODATE
being clear. ioend->io_error is initialized to 0 at allocation so only needs
to be updated by a failed bio. Also check that ioend->io_error is 0 so that
the first error reported will be the error code returned.

Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -356,7 +356,8 @@ xfs_end_bio(
{
xfs_ioend_t *ioend = bio->bi_private;

- ioend->io_error = test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags) ? 0 : error;
+ if (!ioend->io_error && !test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags))
+ ioend->io_error = error;

/* Toss bio and pass work off to an xfsdatad thread */
bio->bi_private = NULL;