Re: [PATCH 06/11] gfs2: d_splice_alias() cant return error

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Mon Sep 16 2013 - 09:17:46 EST


Hi,

On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 14:52 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>
> unless it was given an IS_ERR(inode), which isn't the case here. So clean
> up the unnecessary error handling in gfs2_create_inode().
>
> This paves the way for real fixes (hence the stable Cc).
>
That makes send to me:

Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>

I can put this in the gfs2 tree if that makes sense to do,

Steve.

> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> fs/gfs2/inode.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
> index 64915ee..6d7f976 100644
> --- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
> @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {
> d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
> error = 0;
> - if (file && !IS_ERR(d)) {
> + if (file) {
> if (d == NULL)
> d = dentry;
> if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
> @@ -593,8 +593,6 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> error = finish_no_open(file, d);
> }
> gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(ghs);
> - if (IS_ERR(d))
> - return PTR_ERR(d);
> return error;
> } else if (error != -ENOENT) {
> goto fail_gunlock;


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