[patch 33/71] nilfs2: remove unlikely directive causing mis-conversion of error code

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 19:58:22 EST


2.6.30-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 0cfae3d8795f388f9de78adb0171520d19da77e9 upstream.

The following error code handling in nilfs_segctor_write() function
wrongly converted negative error codes to a truth value (i.e. 1):

err = unlikely(err) ? : res;

which originaly meant to be

err = err ? : res;

This mis-conversion caused that write or sync functions receive the
unexpected error code. This fixes the bug by removing the unlikely
directive.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
@@ -1846,8 +1846,8 @@ static int nilfs_segctor_write(struct ni
err = nilfs_segbuf_write(segbuf, &wi);

res = nilfs_segbuf_wait(segbuf, &wi);
- err = unlikely(err) ? : res;
- if (unlikely(err))
+ err = err ? : res;
+ if (err)
return err;
}
return 0;


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