[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1210081547590.31773@dhcp-1-104.brq.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 15:48:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu,
Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@...alab.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix error handling in ext4_fill_super()
I forgot to add Eugene to the cc, sorry.
-Lukas
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:32:54 +0200
> From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: tytso@....edu, Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix error handling in ext4_fill_super()
>
> There are some places in ext4_fill_super() where we would not return
> proper error code if something fails. The confusion is caused probably
> due to the fact that we have two "kind-of" return variables 'ret'and
> 'err'.
>
> 'ret' is used to return error code from ext4_fill_super() where err is
> used to store return values from other functions within ext4_fill_super().
> However some places were missing the obligatory 'ret = err'. We could
> put the assignment where it is missing, but we can have better "future
> proof" solution. Or we could convert the code to use just one, but it
> would require more rewrites.
>
> This commit fixes the problem by returning value from 'err' variable if
> it is set and 'ret' otherwise in error handling branch of the
> ext4_fill_super(). The reasoning is that 'ret' value is often set to
> default "-EINVAL" or explicit value, where 'err' is used to store
> return value from other functions and should be otherwise zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> ---
> fs/ext4/super.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 69c55d4..c02c676 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -3223,7 +3223,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> unsigned int i;
> int needs_recovery, has_huge_files, has_bigalloc;
> __u64 blocks_count;
> - int err;
> + int err = 0;
> unsigned int journal_ioprio = DEFAULT_JOURNAL_IOPRIO;
> ext4_group_t first_not_zeroed;
>
> @@ -3252,6 +3252,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> for (cp = sb->s_id; (cp = strchr(cp, '/'));)
> *cp = '!';
>
> + /* -EINVAL is default */
> ret = -EINVAL;
> blocksize = sb_min_blocksize(sb, EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE);
> if (!blocksize) {
> @@ -3629,7 +3630,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> " too large to mount safely on this system");
> if (sizeof(sector_t) < 8)
> ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "CONFIG_LBDAF not enabled");
> - ret = err;
> goto failed_mount;
> }
>
> @@ -3737,7 +3737,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> }
> if (err) {
> ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "insufficient memory");
> - ret = err;
> goto failed_mount3;
> }
>
> @@ -3863,8 +3862,8 @@ no_journal:
> if (es->s_overhead_clusters)
> sbi->s_overhead = le32_to_cpu(es->s_overhead_clusters);
> else {
> - ret = ext4_calculate_overhead(sb);
> - if (ret)
> + err = ext4_calculate_overhead(sb);
> + if (err)
> goto failed_mount_wq;
> }
>
> @@ -3876,6 +3875,7 @@ no_journal:
> alloc_workqueue("ext4-dio-unwritten", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND, 1);
> if (!EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: failed to create DIO workqueue\n");
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto failed_mount_wq;
> }
>
> @@ -3978,8 +3978,8 @@ no_journal:
> /* Enable quota usage during mount. */
> if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_QUOTA) &&
> !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
> - ret = ext4_enable_quotas(sb);
> - if (ret)
> + err = ext4_enable_quotas(sb);
> + if (err)
> goto failed_mount7;
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_QUOTA */
> @@ -4050,7 +4050,7 @@ out_fail:
> kfree(sbi);
> out_free_orig:
> kfree(orig_data);
> - return ret;
> + return err ? err : ret;
> }
>
> /*
>
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists