linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Return EIO on read error in ext4_find

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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:43:14 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@...gle.com>
Cc:     adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Return EIO on read error in ext4_find_entry

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 04:23:07PM -0700, Khazhismel Kumykov wrote:
> Previously, a read error would be ignored and we would eventually return
> NULL from ext4_find_entry, which signals "no such file or directory". We
> should be returning EIO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted