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

[fs <fs@ercist.iscas.ac.cn>]

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• To: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
• Subject: Re: [PATCH] ReiserFS _get_block_create_0 wrong behavior when I/O fails
• From: fs <fs@ercist.iscas.ac.cn>
• Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:15:03 -0400
• Cc: fs <fs@ercist.iscas.ac.cn>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:46:59PM +0400, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
> 
> Yes. reiserfs may store file page in different blocks. In this do {}
> while loop it looks for different parts of page in the tree. If
> search_for_position_by_key fails - one part of page is not found and
> -EIO is to be returned.
> 
> > > 	    break;
you mean the patch should be like this?

Signed-off-by: Qu Fuping<fs@ercist.iscas.ac.cn>
diff -uNp linux-2.6.12-rc6.old/fs/reiserfs/inode.c linux-2.6.12-rc6.new/fs/reiserfs/inode.c > reiserfs_read.diff

--- linux-2.6.12-rc6.old/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	2005-06-06 11:22:29.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc6.new/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	2005-06-17 16:12:18.000000000 -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 ;
     }
     
@@ -382,7 +385,8 @@ research:
 
 	// update key to look for the next piece
 	set_cpu_key_k_offset (&key, cpu_key_k_offset (&key) + chars);
-	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)
 	    // we read something from tail, even if now we got IO_ERROR
 	    break;
 	bh = get_last_bh (&path);
@@ -394,6 +398,10 @@ research:
 
 finished:
     pathrelse (&path);
+
+    if(result == IO_ERROR)
+	    return -EIO;
+    
     /* this buffer has valid data, but isn't valid for io.  mapping it to
      * block #0 tells the rest of reiserfs it just has a tail in it
      */

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