Re: [PATCH] iomap: don't allow holes in swapfiles

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On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 09:23:29AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >  
> > -	/* Skip holes. */
> > +	/* No holes. */
> >  	if (iomap->type == IOMAP_HOLE)
> > -		goto out;
> > +		goto err;
> 
> If we end up not allowing holes this check can just be removed
> entirely.  We already check for the allow types below.  I have to
> admit I would move that type check above the bdev check, though.

True, although I wonder if we should be logging more specific error
messages instead of a generic "not a valid swap file" message. At least
for my Btrfs patches, that's what I do. I'll send a v2 with a second
patch doing that.



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