On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Yan, Zheng <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 26, 2016, at 19:40, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Yan, Zheng <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jan 26, 2016, at 18:30, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Dan Carpenter
>>>> <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> ceph_osdc_alloc_request() returns NULL on error, it never returns error
>>>>> pointers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 5be0389dac66 ('ceph: re-send AIO write request when getting -EOLDSNAP error')
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/fs/ceph/file.c b/fs/ceph/file.c
>>>>> index d37efdd..a52cf9b 100644
>>>>> --- a/fs/ceph/file.c
>>>>> +++ b/fs/ceph/file.c
>>>>> @@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ static void ceph_aio_retry_work(struct work_struct *work)
>>>>>
>>>>> req = ceph_osdc_alloc_request(orig_req->r_osdc, snapc, 2,
>>>>> false, GFP_NOFS);
>>>>> - if (IS_ERR(req)) {
>>>>> - ret = PTR_ERR(req);
>>>>> + if (!req) {
>>>>> + ret = -ENOMEM;
>>>>> req = orig_req;
>>>>> goto out;
>>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Applied, thanks Dan.
>>>>
>>>> Zheng, I have an related concern: where do you put snapc (refcount is
>>>> bumped a few lines above) if ceph_osdc_alloc_request() fails? It looks
>>>> like it's leaked to me.
>>>>
>>>> The BUG_ON(ret == -EOLDSNAPC) also seems a bit bogus, given that ret is
>>>> either -ENOMEM or ceph_osdc_start_request() retval.
>>>
>>> ceph_aio_complete_req treats -EOLDSNAP distinguishingly. Purpose of this BUG_ON is detect potential infinite loop.
>>
>> Did you miss the part about the snap context?
>>
>> I get the purpose of -EOLDSNAPC assert in ceph_direct_read_write(),
>> where you can actually get it from ceph_osdc_wait_request() - it's
>> a server-side error code. Asserting it in ceph_aio_retry_work(), in
>> which only client helpers are called and the only two possible error
>> codes are -ENOMEM and -EIO doesn't make much sense to me.
>>
>
> Yeah, removing that BUG_ON is completely OK.
I still want to know where snapc is put ;)
Thanks,
Ilya
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