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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3/super.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext3/super.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c index 5dbf4dba03c4..3ef272488ac9 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/super.c +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -2361,6 +2361,21 @@ static int ext3_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, if (!sbh) return error; + + if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) { + /* + * Oh, dear. A previous attempt to write the + * superblock failed. This could happen because the + * USB device was yanked out. Or it could happen to + * be a transient write error and maybe the block will + * be remapped. Nothing we can do but to retry the + * write and hope for the best. + */ + ext3_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "previous I/O error to " + "superblock detected"); + clear_buffer_write_io_error(sbh); + set_buffer_uptodate(sbh); + } /* * If the file system is mounted read-only, don't update the * superblock write time. This avoids updating the superblock @@ -2377,8 +2392,15 @@ static int ext3_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, es->s_free_inodes_count = cpu_to_le32(ext3_count_free_inodes(sb)); BUFFER_TRACE(sbh, "marking dirty"); mark_buffer_dirty(sbh); - if (sync) + if (sync) { error = sync_dirty_buffer(sbh); + if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) { + ext3_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "I/O error while writing " + "superblock"); + clear_buffer_write_io_error(sbh); + set_buffer_uptodate(sbh); + } + } return error; } |