Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix 'return 0' for error case in ext4_fill_super

[Joerg Roedel]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:21:57PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:47:12PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:

> > This patch fixes the issue by using the 'err' variable instead of 'ret'
> > for that function-call like it is done in for all other function-calls
> > in ext4_fill_super too.
> > If have seen this issue on 2.6.36 too, so this patch may be -stable
> > material as well.
> 
> Lukas and I have been trying to fix this bug for a couple of days now, and he
> actually sent off an identical patch this morning:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg21743.html
> 
> (I also sent off a similar cleanup of the ext3 counterpart.)
> 
> But, thanks for pointing this out! :)

Oh ok, good to know. I ran into this issue today when I installed a new
kernel on that machine and the 'update-grub' command gave me an ooops.
Good to know it will be fixed soon :)

	Joerg

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