On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:50:20PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > @@ -842,13 +845,15 @@ xfs_buf_read_map( > > * drop the buffer > > */ > > xfs_buf_relse(bp); > > - return NULL; > > + *bpp = NULL; > > We already set *bpp to NULL at the very beginning, so this line is > redundant. Will fix. > > @@ -860,19 +865,18 @@ xfs_buf_read( > > struct xfs_buf **bpp, > > const struct xfs_buf_ops *ops) > > { > > int error; > > DEFINE_SINGLE_BUF_MAP(map, blkno, numblks); > > > > - *bpp = NULL; > > - bp = xfs_buf_read_map(target, &map, 1, flags, ops); > > - if (!bp) > > - return -ENOMEM; > > - error = bp->b_error; > > + error = xfs_buf_read_map(target, &map, 1, flags, bpp, ops); > > + if (error) > > + return error; > > + error = (*bpp)->b_error; > > if (error) { > > + xfs_buf_ioerror_alert(*bpp, __func__); > > + xfs_buf_stale(*bpp); > > + xfs_buf_relse(*bpp); > > + *bpp = NULL; > > > > /* bad CRC means corrupted metadata */ > > if (error == -EFSBADCRC) > > I still think we have a problem here. We should not have to check > ->b_error, and the xfs_buf_ioerror_alert should be either in the callers > or in xfs_buf_read_map, as xfs_buf_read is just supposed to be a trivial > wrapper for the single map case, not add functionality of its own. Yeah. I've redone the patchset to keep xfs_buf_read() as a static inline function, then refactored the ioerror/stale/relse bits as a separate patch on the end. --D