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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:45:42 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] ext4: make the bitmap read routines return real error codes On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 09:36:55AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Make the bitmap reaading routines return real error codes (EIO, > EFSCORRUPTED, EFSBADCRC) which can then be reflected back to > userspace for more precise diagnosis work. > > In particular, this means that mballoc no longer claims that we're out > of memory if the block bitmaps become corrupt. > > v2: Use ERR_PTR to return error codes. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> Applied, thanks. - Ted -- 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
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