When doing a fsync with a fast path we have a time window where we can miss
the fact that writeback of some file data failed, and therefore we endup
returning success (0) from fsync when we should return an error.
The steps that lead to this are the following:
1) We start all ordered extents by calling filemap_fdatawrite_range();
2) We do some other work like locking the inode's i_mutex, start a transaction,
start a log transaction, etc;
3) We enter btrfs_log_inode(), acquire the inode's log_mutex and collect all the
ordered extents from inode's ordered tree into a list;
4) But by the time we do ordered extent collection, some ordered extents we started
at step 1) might have already completed with an error, and therefore we didn't
found them in the ordered tree and had no idea they finished with an error. This
makes our fsync return success (0) to userspace, but has no bad effects on the log
like for example insertion of file extent items into the log that point to unwritten
extents, because the invalid extent maps were removed before the ordered extent
completed (in inode.c:btrfs_finish_ordered_io).
So after collecting the ordered extents just check if the inode's i_mapping has any
error flags set (AS_EIO or AS_ENOSPC) and leave with an error if it does. Whenever
writeback fails for a page of an ordered extent, we call mapping_set_error (done in
extent_io.c:end_extent_writepage, called by extent_io.c:end_bio_extent_writepage)
that sets one of those error flags in the inode's i_mapping flags.
This change also has the side effect of fixing the issue where for fast fsyncs we
never checked/cleared the error flags from the inode's i_mapping flags, which means
that a full fsync performed after a fast fsync could get such errors that belonged
to the fast fsync - because the full fsync calls btrfs_wait_ordered_range() which
calls filemap_fdatawait_range(), and the later checks for and clears those flags,
while for fast fsyncs we never call filemap_fdatawait_range() or anything else
that checks for and clears the error flags from the inode's i_mapping.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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