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Message-ID: <20240926075534.s3bzoqcpyd6u7zhx@quack3>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:55:34 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@...browski.org>,
	Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Call ext4_journal_stop(handle) only once in
 ext4_dio_write_iter()

On Wed 25-09-24 21:54:18, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:47:39 +0200
> 
> An ext4_journal_stop(handle) call was immediately used after a return value
> check for a ext4_orphan_add() call in this function implementation.
> Thus call such a function only once instead directly before the check.
> 
> This issue was transformed by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/ext4/file.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
> index f14aed14b9cf..23005f1345a8 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
> @@ -564,12 +564,9 @@ static ssize_t ext4_dio_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
>  		}
> 
>  		ret = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
> -		if (ret) {
> -			ext4_journal_stop(handle);
> -			goto out;
> -		}
> -
>  		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
> +		if (ret)
> +			goto out;
>  	}
> 
>  	if (ilock_shared && !unwritten)
> --
> 2.46.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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