Re: [PATCH] ReiserFS _get_block_create_0 wrong behavior when I/O fails

[Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>]

Hello

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:04, fs wrote:
> Dear Vladimir Saveliev,
> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:41, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
> 
> > > Patch:
> > > diff -uNp /tmp/linux-2.6.12-rc6/fs/reiserfs/inode.c /tmp/linux-2.6.12-rc6.new/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
> > > --- /tmp/linux-2.6.12-rc6/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	2005-06-06 11:22:29.000000000 -0400
> > > +++ /tmp/linux-2.6.12-rc6.new/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	2005-06-15 13:56:45.552564512 -0400
> > > @@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ static int _get_block_create_0 (struct i
> > >      char * p = NULL;
> > >      int chars;
> > >      int ret ;
> > > +    int result ;
> > >      int done = 0 ;
> > >      unsigned long offset ;
> > >  
> > > @@ -262,7 +263,8 @@ static int _get_block_create_0 (struct i
> > >  		  (loff_t)block * inode->i_sb->s_blocksize + 1, TYPE_ANY, 3);
> > >  
> > >  research:
> > > -    if (search_for_position_by_key (inode->i_sb, &key, &path) != POSITION_FOUND) {
> > > +    result = search_for_position_by_key (inode->i_sb, &key, &path) ;
> > > +    if (result != POSITION_FOUND) {
> > >  	pathrelse (&path);
> > >          if (p)
> > >              kunmap(bh_result->b_page) ;
> > > @@ -270,7 +272,8 @@ research:
> > >  	// That there is some MMAPED data associated with it that is yet to be written to disk.
> > >  	if ((args & GET_BLOCK_NO_HOLE) && !PageUptodate(bh_result->b_page) ) {
> > >  	    return -ENOENT ;
> > > -	}
> > > +	}else if (result == IO_ERROR)
> > > +		return -EIO ;
> > >          return 0 ;
> > >      }
> > >      
> > 
> > Your patch is incomplete. There is one more search_for_position_by_key
> > at the end of this function. You probably want to check its return value
> > also.
> I notice there's a comment
> 	if (search_for_position_by_key (inode->i_sb, &key, &path) !=
> POSITION_FOUND)
> 	    // we read something from tail, even if now we got IO_ERROR <-
> Here, can you explain more ?
> 	    break;
> 
> 
> 
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