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From: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
To: Wenjie Qi <qwjhust@gmail.com>, jaegeuk@kernel.org
Cc: chao@kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
	qiwenjie@xiaomi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: return symlink writeback errors
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:30:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9a95043-f4bb-403b-8603-b65c703e037c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810133832.3530016-1-qiwenjie@xiaomi.com>

On 8/10/26 21:38, Wenjie Qi wrote:
> F2FS writes long symlink data with page_symlink() and then flushes the
> symlink mapping to reduce the chance of exposing a broken symlink.
> 
> That flush result is currently ignored. If the writeback fails, symlink()
> still returns success even though the symlink is not durable and the same
> operation can already surface -EIO through syncfs().
> 
> Return the writeback error to userspace and skip the dirsync flush once the
> symlink data flush has failed.
> 
> Fixes: d0cae97cb600 ("f2fs: flush symlink path to avoid broken symlink after POR")
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xiaomi.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>

Thanks,

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-12  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-10 13:38 Wenjie Qi
2026-08-12  9:30 ` Chao Yu [this message]
2026-08-12 20:30 ` [f2fs-dev] " patchwork-bot+f2fs
2026-08-15  5:18 ` Al Viro
2026-08-18 20:04   ` Jaegeuk Kim

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