linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] btrfs: free-space-cache: Fix error return code in __load_free_space

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Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2020 18:52:06 +0100
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>
Cc:     clm@...com, josef@...icpanda.com, dsterba@...e.com,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        yi.zhang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: free-space-cache: Fix error return code in
 __load_free_space_cache

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:08:04AM +0800, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> Fix to return the error code(instead always 0) when memory allocating
> failed in __load_free_space_cache().

This lacks the analysis of consequences, so there's only one caller and
that will treat values <=0 as 'cache not loaded'. There's no functional
change but otherwise the error values should be there for clarity.
Changelog updated.

> Fixes: a67509c30079f4c50 ("Btrfs: add a io_ctl struct and helpers ...")

BTW, please don't trim the patch subject in the Fixes line.