Re: [PATCH v4 04/31] ntfs: preserve attribute search context initialization errors

[liubaolin]

在 2026/10/27 13:46, Hyunchul Lee 写道:
> Hi,
>
> > @@ -5476,7 +5480,7 @@ int ntfs_attr_exist(struct ntfs_inode *ni, const __le32 type, __le16 *name,
> >   	ntfs_debug("Entering\n");
> >   
> >   	ctx = ntfs_attr_get_search_ctx(ni, NULL);
> > -	if (!ctx) {
> > +	if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
> >   		ntfs_error(ni->vol->sb, "%s: Failed to get search context",
> >   				__func__);
> >   		return 0;
>
> ntfs_attr_exist() still turns ntfs_attr_get_search_ctx() errors into
> 'attribute absent'.

Hi HyunchulLee,
   You're right. In v5, I'll make ntfs_attr_exist() preserve errors and 
update its callers to distinguish errors from an absent attribute.

Thanks,
Baolin.

> > --
> > 2.51.0