linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] ext4: make the bitmap read routines return real error codes

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Message-ID: <20151018014542.GG2678@thunk.org>
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
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