Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2012-08-19

[PATCH RESEND] Ext4: No need to add inode to orphan list during hole punch

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From: Ashish Sangwan <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-25 14:23:55
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: ext4 file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: "Theodore Ts'o", Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

While performing punch hole for an inode, i_disksize is not changed.
So, there is no need to add the inode to orphan list.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <redacted>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 91341ec..3e902f9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4801,9 +4801,6 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
 	if (IS_ERR(handle))
 		return PTR_ERR(handle);
 
-	err = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
-	if (err)
-		goto out;
 
 	/*
 	 * Now we need to zero out the non-page-aligned data in the
@@ -4889,7 +4886,6 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
 	up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 
 out:
-	ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode);
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
 	ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-- 
1.7.10.4
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