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-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/ioctl.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 18e328ce4b54..12ae31e1813e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -4252,7 +4252,19 @@ static long btrfs_ioctl_scrub(struct file *file, void __user *arg)
 			      &sa->progress, sa->flags & BTRFS_SCRUB_READONLY,
 			      0);
 
-	if (ret == 0 && copy_to_user(arg, sa, sizeof(*sa)))
+	/*
+	 * Copy scrub args to user space even if btrfs_scrub_dev() returned an
+	 * error. This is important as it allows user space to know how much
+	 * progress scrub has done. For example, if scrub is canceled we get
+	 * -ECANCELED from btrfs_scrub_dev() and return that error back to user
+	 * space. Later user space can inspect the progress from the structure
+	 * btrfs_ioctl_scrub_args and resume scrub from where it left off
+	 * previously (btrfs-progs does this).
+	 * If we fail to copy the btrfs_ioctl_scrub_args structure to user space
+	 * then return -EFAULT to signal the structure was not copied or it may
+	 * be corrupt and unreliable due to a partial copy.
+	 */
+	if (copy_to_user(arg, sa, sizeof(*sa)))
 		ret = -EFAULT;
 
 	if (!(sa->flags & BTRFS_SCRUB_READONLY))