linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Note the error in ext4_end

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Message-ID: <20140407144111.GB8855@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:41:11 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Note the error in ext4_end_bio()

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:35:07AM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> ext4_end_bio() currently throws away the error that it receives.  Chances
> are this is part of a spate of errors, one of which will end up getting
> the error returned to userspace somehow, but we shouldn't take that risk.
> Also print out the errno to aid in debug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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