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-rw-r--r--drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index ddbfa70ef9a3..0ca0bf330d8f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -769,8 +769,12 @@ static ssize_t writeback_store(struct device *dev,
zram_clear_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_IDLE);
zram_slot_unlock(zram, index);
/*
- * Return last IO error unless every IO were
- * not suceeded.
+ * BIO errors are not fatal, we continue and simply
+ * attempt to writeback the remaining objects (pages).
+ * At the same time we need to signal user-space that
+ * some writes (at least one, but also could be all of
+ * them) were not successful and we do so by returning
+ * the most recent BIO error.
*/
ret = err;
continue;