[Ocfs2-devel] [TRIVIAL] [PATCH] Remove unnecessary goto statements

Wengang Wang wen.gang.wang at oracle.com
Thu Jul 22 18:41:14 PDT 2010


On 10-07-22 14:34, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
> >> -bail:
> >>       return status;
> >>  }
> >>
> >> @@ -1050,7 +1048,6 @@ static inline int
> >> ocfs2_block_group_set_bits(handle_t *handle,
> >>                                    group_bh);
> >>       if (status < 0) {
> >>               mlog_errno(status);
> >> -             goto bail;
> >>       }
> >
> > Why this?
> > the following lines are modifying the buffer head.
> >
> > 1361         le16_add_cpu(&bg->bg_free_bits_count, -num_bits);
> > 1362         while(num_bits--)
> > 1363                 ocfs2_set_bit(bit_off++, bitmap);
> > 1364
> > 1365         ocfs2_journal_dirty(handle, group_bh);
> > 1366
> > 1367 bail:
> >
> > For the next read of this group descriptor, we can't be sure it will be dirty
> > read. So that it may get wrong contents and then the following write will write
> > the wrong contents to disk.
> 
> 
> Not sure which codebase you are referring to. According to the patch
> and the code in the Joel's git repo from kernel.org, the statement
> immediately following this was a bail tag.

Oh, sorry. I made a mistake for this.

regards,
wengang.



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