On Sun 24-04-11 17:18:02, Manish Katiyar wrote: > This patch fixes the following. > > a) Incase journal transaction allocation fails due to ENOMEM don't call > ext4_std_error() since it will remount the fs as readonly and logs the > message in kernel log. > b) Call posix_acl_release() incase journal allocation fails in case of > error paths. > > > Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ext4/acl.c | 7 ++++--- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c > index 21eacd7..0c98710 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/acl.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c > @@ -354,7 +354,6 @@ ext4_acl_chmod(struct inode *inode) > EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb)); > if (IS_ERR(handle)) { > error = PTR_ERR(handle); > - ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, error); The changelog speaks only about ENOMEM but you actually remove the message completely (so it won't catch EIO or similar errors). I think you should just condition ext4_std_error() with if (error != ENOMEM). > goto out; > } > error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS, clone); > @@ -450,8 +449,10 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const > char *name, const void *value, > > retry: > handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb)); > - if (IS_ERR(handle)) > - return PTR_ERR(handle); > + if (IS_ERR(handle)) { > + error = PTR_ERR(handle); > + goto release_and_out; > + } > error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, type, acl); > ext4_journal_stop(handle); > if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)) Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html