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Date:	Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:26:08 -0700
From:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
To:	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bbpetkov@...oo.de, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: + ext4-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_create_journal.patch added to -mm tree


The patch titled
     ext4: fix error handling in ext4_create_journal
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     ext4-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_create_journal.patch

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See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this

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Subject: ext4: fix error handling in ext4_create_journal
From: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@...oo.de>

Fix error handling in ext4_create_journal according to kernel conventions.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@...oo.de>
Cc: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/ext4/super.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/ext4/super.c~ext4-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_create_journal fs/ext4/super.c
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c~ext4-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_create_journal
+++ a/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2158,6 +2158,7 @@ static int ext4_create_journal(struct su
 			       unsigned int journal_inum)
 {
 	journal_t *journal;
+	int err;
 
 	if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: readonly filesystem when trying to "
@@ -2165,13 +2166,15 @@ static int ext4_create_journal(struct su
 		return -EROFS;
 	}
 
-	if (!(journal = ext4_get_journal(sb, journal_inum)))
+	journal = ext4_get_journal(sb, journal_inum);
+	if (!journal)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "EXT4-fs: creating new journal on inode %u\n",
 	       journal_inum);
 
-	if (jbd2_journal_create(journal)) {
+	err = jbd2_journal_create(journal);
+	if (err) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: error creating journal.\n");
 		jbd2_journal_destroy(journal);
 		return -EIO;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from bbpetkov@...oo.de are

update-description-in-documentation-filesystems-vfstxt-typo-fixed.patch
update-documentation-filesystems-vfstxt-second-part.patch
ext3-fix-error-handling-in-ext3_create_journal.patch
ext4-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_create_journal.patch

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