Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: return symlink writeback errors
Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Aug 2026 15:02:06 +0100
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 09:04:45PM +0800, 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: 424fd5d831e1 ("f2fs: Remove f2fs_get_node_page()")
That commit did not touch this code.
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