ovl: don't set the superblock's errseq_t manually

Since commit 5679897 ("vfs: make sync_filesystem return errors from
->sync_fs"), the return value from sync_fs callback can be seen in
sync_filesystem(). Thus the errseq_set opreation can be removed here.

Depends-on: commit 5679897 ("vfs: make sync_filesystem return errors from ->sync_fs")
Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>

Author: hfxsp

fs/overlayfs/super.c

@@ -202,15 +202,9 @@ static int ovl_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = ovl_sync_status(ofs);
-	/*
-	 * We have to always set the err, because the return value isn't
-	 * checked in syncfs, and instead indirectly return an error via
-	 * the sb's writeback errseq, which VFS inspects after this call.
-	 */
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		errseq_set(&sb->s_wb_err, -EIO);
+
+	if (ret < 0)
 		return -EIO;
-	}
 
 	if (!ret)
 		return ret;