Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Fix an error handling path in btrfs_defrag_leaves()

From: David Sterba
Date: Tue Dec 13 2022 - 13:46:28 EST


On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 09:01:43PM +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> All error handling paths end to 'out', except this memory allocation
> failure.
>
> This is spurious. So branch to the error handling path also in this case.
> It will add a call to:
> memset(&root->defrag_progress, 0,
> sizeof(root->defrag_progress));
>
> Fixes: 6702ed490ca0 ("Btrfs: Add run time btree defrag, and an ioctl to force btree defrag")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch is completely speculative.
>
> Review with care !

I think it's correct, using goto for cleanup is for consistency and the
memset is not necessary on error paths but again for consistency with
what other types of errors in the functions lead to. Added to misc-next,
thanks.