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Re: [PATCH RESEND] btrfs:Fix incorrect return statement if failure occurs in the function btrfs_mark_extent_written

From Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RESEND] btrfs:Fix incorrect return statement if failure occurs in the function btrfs_mark_extent_written
Date 2015-12-30 22:10 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 08:20:47PM -0500, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> This fixes the incorrect return statement if failure occurs by
> returning 0 rather then the variable ret which may hold a error
> code to signal when a failure has occurred in the function
> btrfs_mark_extent_written to its callers rather then always
> making this function appear to run successfully to its callers
> by always returning zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/file.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> index b823fac..7a9ab8e 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ again:
>  	}
>  out:
>  	btrfs_free_path(path);
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  }

We're checking ret higher up and aborting the transaction properly.
There is at least one place ret will be non-zero above that isn't an
error, but you're passing it to the caller here making them think it has
gone wrong.

-chris

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