linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph updates for 5.13-rc1

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Message-ID: <YJSPiFo9b7O75xrW@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 7 May 2021 00:53:28 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph updates for 5.13-rc1

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 10:51:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:33 AM Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is a merge conflict in fs/ceph/dir.c because Jeff's inode
> > type handling patch went through the vfs tree together with Al's
> > inode_wrong_type() helper.  for-linus-merged has the resolution.
> 
> Actually, the linux-next resolution looks wrong - or at least
> unnecessary - to me.
> 
> The conversion to d_splice_alias() means that the IS_ERR() test is now
> pointless, because d_splice_alias() handles an error-pointer natively,
> and just returns the error back with ERR_CAST().
> 
> So the proper resolution seems to be to just drop the IS_ERR().

Agreed; -next resolution is not wrong per se, but it's not needed -
d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(e), d) == ERR_PTR(e) for any e in -4095..-1,
so the variant of resolution in mainline merge will do the right thing.