Re: [PATCH] ext3: Check return value of sb_getblk()

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 03:57:42 EST


2010-10-19 (í), 15:34 +0900, Namhyung Kim:
> Check return value of sb_getblk() is NULL. unlikely is addded here
> since it is called from a loop and we've been OK without the check
> until now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext3/inode.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
> index ef1c23a..a7ac778 100644
> --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
> @@ -655,6 +655,12 @@ static int ext3_alloc_branch(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> * parent to disk.
> */
> bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, new_blocks[n-1]);
> + if (unlikely(!bh)) {
> + n--;
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> + goto failed;
> + }
> +
> branch[n].bh = bh;
> lock_buffer(bh);
> BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call get_create_access");

Maybe EIO would be more proper error code, I guess.


--
Regards,
Namhyung Kim


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