Re: [PATCH] FS-Cache: Add missing initialization of ret in cachefiles_write_page()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:42 AM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > This isn't quite the right solution.  The uninitialised error path needs to
>> > set -ENOBUFS.
>>
>> That's what your commit 102f4d900c9c8f5e ("FS-Cache: Handle a write to the
>> page immediately beyond the EOF marker") does, and is also in its commit
>> description:
>>
>>     Whilst we're at it, change the triggered assertion in CacheFiles to just
>>     return -ENOBUFS instead.
>>
>> "ret" is used only to print the original error in a debug message.
>
> I'll adjust your patch to set the default value in ret to be -ENOBUFS instead
> of 0.

OK. Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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