Am 26.05.2013 22:41, schrieb Dan Carpenter: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:05:15PM +0200, walter harms wrote: >> >> >> Am 23.05.2013 12:02, schrieb Dan Carpenter: >>> There is an error path where "dir" is an ERR_PTR. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c >>> index 5148d90..921aede 100644 >>> --- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c >>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c >>> @@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ static int recover_dentry(struct page *ipage, struct inode *inode) >>> out: >>> f2fs_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_NOTICE, "recover_inode and its dentry: " >>> "ino = %x, name = %s, dir = %lx, err = %d", >>> - ino_of_node(ipage), raw_inode->i_name, dir->i_ino, err); >>> + ino_of_node(ipage), raw_inode->i_name, >>> + IS_ERR(dir) ? 0 : dir->i_ino, err); >>> return err; >>> } >>> >> I am not an expert on this matter so a simple question: >> dir->i_ino==0 is not valid ? > > That is a valid question. The trick is that we also print the err > code so error conditions should be pretty obvious. > hi dan, people never read error messages propperly, i would go for -1 or at least something obvoius like 57005 (0xdead :). re, wh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html