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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: 79787eaab46121 ("btrfs: replace many BUG_ONs with proper error handling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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