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Message-Id: <1266608845-13212-6-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:47:23 +0300
From:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] ext3: use nofail variant of inode_setattr()

After we updated i_disk_size and stop the journal it is
too late for error handling from inode_setattr().
Since inode_change_ok() is now responsible for all
necessery checks we may call __inode_setattr() which can
not fail.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
---
 fs/ext3/inode.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index 455e6e6..196aee3 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -3184,8 +3184,11 @@ int ext3_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 			error = rc;
 		ext3_journal_stop(handle);
 	}
-
-	rc = inode_setattr(inode, attr);
+	/*
+	 * All necessery check already done in inode_check_ok(),
+	 * it is safe to use nofail version here.
+	 */
+	__inode_setattr(inode, attr);
 
 	if (!rc && (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
 		rc = ext3_acl_chmod(inode);
-- 
1.6.6

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