Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: return error number for quota_write

From: Chao Yu
Date: Sun Oct 22 2017 - 11:01:56 EST


On 2017/10/20 3:08, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 10/18, Chao Yu wrote:
>> On 2017/10/18 2:17, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>> On 10/17, Chao Yu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2017/10/17 7:04, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>>>> On 10/16, Chao Yu wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Jaegeuk,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2017/10/13 7:15, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>>>>>> This patch returns an error number to quota_write in order for quota to handle
>>>>>>> it correctly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We should return error number like __generic_file_write_iter, right? it
>>>>>> needs to return written bytes if we have written one page or more, otherwise
>>>>>> return error number feedbacked from write_begin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So how about reverting 4f31d26b0c17 ("f2fs: return wrong error number on
>>>>>> f2fs_quota_write")?
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought like that, but realized the code change is somewhat different between
>>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... main structure of codes here is copied from other file systems, is there
>>>> the same problem in *_quota_write of other file systems?
>>>>
>>>> BTW, it looks making below judgment condition being useless.
>>>>
>>>> if (len == towrite)
>>>> return 0;
>>>
>>> We need this to avoid needless inode updates. :P
>>
>> For err = 0 and len == towrite case, it more likes a bug of quota that passing
>> 0 in @len.
>>
>> :(, Oh, still didn't get that why there is difference in between reverting and
>> this fixing. Can you please explain more about this?
>
> Ah, right. Let me just revert the original patch. :)

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

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> Thanks,
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