Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2013-01-14

Re: [PATCH V1 2/2] Ext3: return ENOMEM rather than EIO if sb_getblk fails

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2013-01-14 14:29:25
Also in: linux-fsdevel

On Sun 13-01-13 18:44:55, Wang shilong wrote:
From: Wang Shilong <redacted>

It will be better to have ENOMEM return rather than EIO,because
the only reason that sb_getblk fails is allocation fails.
  Again one case is wrong. See below.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <redacted>
---
 fs/ext3/inode.c  | 6 +++---
 fs/ext3/resize.c | 6 +++---
 fs/ext3/xattr.c  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index c91f8bf..d5315d5 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ struct buffer_head *ext3_getblk(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		struct buffer_head *bh;
 		bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, dummy.b_blocknr);
 		if (unlikely(!bh)) {
-			*errp = -EIO;
+			*errp = -ENOMEM;
 			goto err;
 		}
 		if (buffer_new(&dummy)) {
@@ -2739,7 +2739,7 @@ static int __ext3_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode,
 				"unable to read inode block - "
 				"inode=%lu, block="E3FSBLK,
 				 inode->i_ino, block);
-		return -EIO;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
 		lock_buffer(bh);
@@ -2833,7 +2833,7 @@ make_io:
 					"inode=%lu, block="E3FSBLK,
 					inode->i_ino, block);
 			brelse(bh);
-			return -EIO;
+			return -ENOMEM;
  This is wrong. Here we really failed because of IO error (buffer was not
uptodate).

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR
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