gfs2: return errors from gfs2_ail_empty_gl
Before this patch, function gfs2_ail_empty_gl did not return errors it encountered from __gfs2_trans_begin. Those errors usually came from the fact that the file system was made read-only, often due to unmount (but theoretically could be due to -o remount,ro), which prevented the transaction from starting. The inability to start a transaction prevented its revokes from being properly written to the journal for glocks during unmount (and transition to ro). That meant glocks could be unlocked without the metadata properly revoked in the journal. So other nodes could grab the glock thinking that their lvb values were correct, but in fact corresponded to the glock without its revokes properly synced. That presented as lvb mismatch errors. This patch allows gfs2_ail_empty_gl to return the error properly to the caller. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
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