linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2] NULL pointer when make_indexed

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Date:	Sun, 15 May 2011 08:05:05 -0700
From:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] NULL pointer when make_indexed_dir returns -ENOSPC

On 5/14/2011 9:21 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:59:20AM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wasnt sure if people were expecting a v2 for this one, but I
>> noticed the modified version of v1 was removed from the tree, so I
>> am assuming we needed v2?  This one handles marking the buffer dirty
>> before calling do split to avoid the null pointer.  It introduces a
>> little overhead, but the only other option would be to introduce a
>> new flag set to do_split.  But if there's any one that would prefer
>> the flags to this solution, please let me know.  Thx! :)
>>
>> Allison Henderson
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson<achender@...ibm.com>
>
> Applied, thanks.  In the future, I'd appreciate it if you resent the
> patch with a formal commit description.  I recreated the commit
> description from the older patch in this case.
>
> 	    	     	   	    	 - Ted

Thanks Ted.  Sorry about the description, I think I have another small 
patch out there like that.  I will send out an update.  Thx!

Allison Henderson

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