Re: [PATCH] ext4: Convert int to vm_fault_t type

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 06:56:39PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> As caller of block_page_mkwrite() are -
> fs/ext4/inode.c
> fs/nilfs2/file.c
> 
> I will merge both changes in a single patch and send it.

Note that it's *important* for ext4 that we know what kind of error
was returned by the helper function passed into block_page_write() and
called by it.  In particular, whether the error was ENOSPC or not.

That's why this change should have raised all sorts of alarums:

 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-	if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
+	if (ret == VM_FAULT_SIGBUS &&
+		ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
 		goto retry_alloc;

Note the ret == -ENOSPC --- you blindly changed it to return
VM_FAULT_SIGBUS!!!

You need to understand *why* the code does what it does, and not just
make blind mechanical replacements.

In this particular case, it probably means that if you insist on
making block_page_mkwrite() return vmfault_t, it will probably need to
take an optional "int *err" parameter, so the error can be returned to
the caller if the caller needs it.

I'm going to drop the whole ext4 changes for vm_fault_t for this
cycle, and I'll let you try to fix it up properly for the next cycle.

Regards,

						- Ted