[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH V3] ocfs2: return error while ocfs2_figure_merge_contig_type failing
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Apr 28 13:45:31 PDT 2015
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:18:27 +0800 Xue jiufei <xuejiufei at huawei.com> wrote:
> Now function ocfs2_figure_merge_contig_type() still return CONTIG_NONE
> when some error occurs which will cause unpredictable error.
> So return error while ocfs2_figure_merge_contig_type failing.
>
> @@ -4336,8 +4336,11 @@ ocfs2_figure_merge_contig_type(struct ocfs2_extent_tree *et,
>
> if (left_cpos != 0) {
> left_path = ocfs2_new_path_from_path(path);
> - if (!left_path)
> + if (!left_path) {
> + status = -ENOMEM;
> + mlog_errno(status);
> goto exit;
> + }
>
> status = ocfs2_find_path(et->et_ci, left_path,
>
>
> ...
> left_cpos);
> @@ -4392,8 +4395,11 @@ ocfs2_figure_merge_contig_type(struct ocfs2_extent_tree *et,
> goto free_left_path;
>
> right_path = ocfs2_new_path_from_path(path);
> - if (!right_path)
> + if (!right_path) {
> + status = -ENOMEM;
> + mlog_errno(status);
> goto free_left_path;
> + }
>
> status = ocfs2_find_path(et->et_ci, right_path, right_cpos);
> if (status)
> ...
>
> + ret = ocfs2_figure_merge_contig_type(et, path, el,
> + split_index,
> + split_rec,
> + &ctxt);
> + if (ret) {
> + mlog_errno(ret);
> + goto out;
> + }
This guarantees that mlog_errno() will be called twice for a single error.
But I suppose that ocfs2 does this a lot. I guess the place to fix it
is in mlog_errno(): teach it to filter out duplicates somehow.
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