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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>2015-11-09 09:23:40 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2015-11-11 09:36:57 -0700
commitdbd3ca50753e70e09cad747dce23b1a7683a3342 (patch)
tree7e41970d124767b0184baae1d339ac2d6995f080
parentc74dc7801d515d01847fd5cf2b472489fa5717b1 (diff)
fs/block_dev.c: Remove WARN_ON() when inode writeback fails
If a block device is hot removed and later last reference to device is put, we try to writeback the dirty inode. But device is gone and that writeback fails. Currently we do a WARN_ON() which does not seem to be the right thing. Convert it to a ratelimited kernel warning. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> [jmoyer@redhat.com: get rid of unnecessary name initialization, 80 cols] Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 0a793c7930eb..bb0dfb1c7af1 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -50,12 +50,21 @@ struct block_device *I_BDEV(struct inode *inode)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(I_BDEV);
-static void bdev_write_inode(struct inode *inode)
+static void bdev_write_inode(struct block_device *bdev)
{
+ struct inode *inode = bdev->bd_inode;
+ int ret;
+
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
while (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
- WARN_ON_ONCE(write_inode_now(inode, true));
+ ret = write_inode_now(inode, true);
+ if (ret) {
+ char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("VFS: Dirty inode writeback failed "
+ "for block device %s (err=%d).\n",
+ bdevname(bdev, name), ret);
+ }
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
@@ -1504,7 +1513,7 @@ static void __blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
* ->release can cause the queue to disappear, so flush all
* dirty data before.
*/
- bdev_write_inode(bdev->bd_inode);
+ bdev_write_inode(bdev);
}
if (bdev->bd_contains == bdev) {
if (disk->fops->release)