linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix error return from ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized

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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:58:26 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix error return from
 ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents()

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 05:54:30PM -0500, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Commit 3779473246 breaks the return of error codes from
> ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents() in ext4_ext_map_blocks().  A
> portion of the patch assigns that function's signed integer return
> value to an unsigned int.  Consequently, negatively valued error codes
> are lost and can be treated as a bogus allocated block count.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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