linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Reset error code in ext4_find

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Message-ID: <20180729212157.GI21725@thunk.org>
Date:   Sun, 29 Jul 2018 17:21:57 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:     "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        anatoly.trosinenko@...dex.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Reset error code in ext4_find_entry in fallback

On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:49:46PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> When ext4_find_entry() falls back to "searching the old fashioned
> way" due to a corrupt dx dir, it needs to reset the error code
> to NULL so that the nonstandard ERR_BAD_DX_DIR code isn't returned
> to userspace.
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199947
> 
> Reported-by: Anatoly Trosinenko <anatoly.trosinenko@...dex.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted