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    Btrfs: do not abort transaction at btrfs_update_root() after failure to COW path · 72bd2323
    Filipe Manana authored
    Currently when we fail to COW a path at btrfs_update_root() we end up
    always aborting the transaction. However all the current callers of
    btrfs_update_root() are able to deal with errors returned from it, many do
    end up aborting the transaction themselves (directly or not, such as the
    transaction commit path), other BUG_ON() or just gracefully cancel whatever
    they were doing.
    
    When syncing the fsync log, we call btrfs_update_root() through
    tree-log.c:update_log_root(), and if it returns an -ENOSPC error, the log
    sync code does not abort the transaction, instead it gracefully handles
    the error and returns -EAGAIN to the fsync handler, so that it falls back
    to a transaction commit. Any other error different from -ENOSPC, makes the
    log sync code abort the transaction.
    
    So remove the transaction abort from btrfs_update_log() when we fail to
    COW a path to update the root item, so that if an -ENOSPC failure happens
    we avoid aborting the current transaction and have a chance of the fsync
    succeeding after falling back to a transaction commit.
    
    Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203413
    Fixes: 79787eaa ("btrfs: replace many BUG_ONs with proper error handling")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAnand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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