NFS: commit direct writes even if they fail partially

Commit Message

J. Bruce Fields Jan. 16, 2018, 3:08 p.m. UTC

From: "J. Bruce Fields" <[e-mail]>

If some of the WRITE calls making up an O_DIRECT write syscall fail,
we neglect to commit, even if some of the WRITEs succeed.

We also depend on the commit code to free the reference count on the
nfs_page taken in the "if (request_commit)" case at the end of
nfs_direct_write_completion().  The problem was originally noticed
because ENOSPC's encountered partway through a write would result in a
closed file being sillyrenamed when it should have been unlinked.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <[e-mail]>
---
 fs/nfs/direct.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index d2972d537469..8c10b0562e75 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -775,10 +775,8 @@  static void nfs_direct_write_completion(struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr)
 
 	spin_lock(&dreq->lock);
 
-	if (test_bit(NFS_IOHDR_ERROR, &hdr->flags)) {
-		dreq->flags = 0;
+	if (test_bit(NFS_IOHDR_ERROR, &hdr->flags))
 		dreq->error = hdr->error;
-	}
 	if (dreq->error == 0) {
 		nfs_direct_good_bytes(dreq, hdr);
 		if (nfs_write_need_commit(hdr)) {