linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Return -EIO when xfs_vn

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Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:54:37 -0500
From:	Alex Elder <aelder@....com>
To:	Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@...achi.com>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, <xfs-masters@....sgi.com>,
	<xfs@....sgi.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return -EIO when xfs_vn_getattr() failed

On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 22:38 +0900, Mitsuo Hayasaka wrote:
> An attribute of inode can be fetched via xfs_vn_getattr() in XFS.
> Currently it returns EIO, not negative value, when it failed.
> As a result, the system call returns not negative value even though
> an error occured. The stat(2), ls and mv commands cannot handle this
> error and do not work correctly.
> 
> This patch fixes this bug, and returns -EIO, not EIO when an error
> is detected in xfs_vn_getattr().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@...achi.com>
> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@....com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@....com>


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