The patch titled
Subject: ocfs2: clear the rest of the buffers on error
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
clear-the-rest-of-the-buffers-on-error.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/clear-the-rest-of-the-buffers-on-error.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/clear-the-rest-of-the-buffers-on-error.patch
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From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxx>
Subject: ocfs2: clear the rest of the buffers on error
In case a validation fails, clear the rest of the buffers and return the
error to the calling function.
This also facilitates bubbling up the error originating from ocfs2_error
to calling functions.
Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c~clear-the-rest-of-the-buffers-on-error fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c
--- a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c~clear-the-rest-of-the-buffers-on-error
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c
@@ -316,6 +316,12 @@ int ocfs2_read_blocks(struct ocfs2_cachi
bh = bhs[i];
if (!(flags & OCFS2_BH_READAHEAD)) {
+ if (status) {
+ /* Clear the rest of the buffers on error */
+ put_bh(bh);
+ bhs[i] = NULL;
+ continue;
+ }
/* We know this can't have changed as we hold the
* owner sem. Avoid doing any work on the bh if the
* journal has it. */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rgoldwyn@xxxxxxx are
add-errors=continue.patch
acknowledge-return-value-of-ocfs2_error.patch
clear-the-rest-of-the-buffers-on-error.patch
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