Previously, writer_add_record() and write_object_record() would flush the current block and retry appending the record whenever block_writer_add() returned any nonzero error. This forced an assumption that every failure meant the block was full, even when errors such as memory allocation or I/O failures occurred. Update the writer code to inspect the error code returned by block_writer_add() and only flush and reinitialize the writer when the error is REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR. For any other error, immediately propagate it. All call sites now handle various error codes returned by block_writer_add(). Signed-off-by: Meet Soni <meetsoni3017@xxxxxxxxx> --- reftable/writer.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/reftable/writer.c b/reftable/writer.c index f3ab1035d6..0d8181e227 100644 --- a/reftable/writer.c +++ b/reftable/writer.c @@ -310,11 +310,12 @@ static int writer_add_record(struct reftable_writer *w, * done. Otherwise the block writer may have hit the block size limit * and needs to be flushed. */ - if (!block_writer_add(w->block_writer, rec)) { - err = 0; + err = block_writer_add(w->block_writer, rec); + if (err == 0) goto done; - } + if (err != REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR) + goto done; /* * The current block is full, so we need to flush and reinitialize the * writer to start writing the next block. @@ -327,18 +328,11 @@ static int writer_add_record(struct reftable_writer *w, goto done; /* - * Try to add the record to the writer again. If this still fails then - * the record does not fit into the block size. - * - * TODO: it would be great to have `block_writer_add()` return proper - * error codes so that we don't have to second-guess the failure - * mode here. + * Try to add the record to the writer again. */ err = block_writer_add(w->block_writer, rec); - if (err) { - err = REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR; + if (err) goto done; - } done: return err; @@ -625,10 +619,22 @@ static void write_object_record(void *void_arg, void *key) if (arg->err < 0) goto done; + /* + * Try to add the record to the writer. If this succeeds then we're + * done. Otherwise the block writer may have hit the block size limit + * and needs to be flushed. + */ arg->err = block_writer_add(arg->w->block_writer, &rec); if (arg->err == 0) goto done; + if (arg->err != REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR) + goto done; + + /* + * The current block is full, so we need to flush and reinitialize the + * writer to start writing the next block. + */ arg->err = writer_flush_block(arg->w); if (arg->err < 0) goto done; -- 2.34.1