The patch titled Subject: bfs: correct return values has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is bfs-correct-return-values.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/bfs-correct-return-values.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/bfs-correct-return-values.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: bfs: correct return values In case of failed memory allocation, the return should be ENOMEM instead of ENOSPC. Return -EIO when sb_bread() fails. Signed-off-by: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/bfs/dir.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/bfs/dir.c~bfs-correct-return-values fs/bfs/dir.c --- a/fs/bfs/dir.c~bfs-correct-return-values +++ a/fs/bfs/dir.c @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static int bfs_create(struct inode *dir, inode = new_inode(s); if (!inode) - return -ENOSPC; + return -ENOMEM; mutex_lock(&info->bfs_lock); ino = find_first_zero_bit(info->si_imap, info->si_lasti + 1); if (ino > info->si_lasti) { @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static int bfs_add_entry(struct inode *d for (block = sblock; block <= eblock; block++) { bh = sb_bread(dir->i_sb, block); if (!bh) - return -ENOSPC; + return -EIO; for (off = 0; off < BFS_BSIZE; off += BFS_DIRENT_SIZE) { de = (struct bfs_dirent *)(bh->b_data + off); if (!de->ino) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-trusted-xattr-missing-cap_sys_admin-check.patch adfs-returning-correct-return-values.patch affs-kstrdup-memory-handling.patch affs-kstrdup-memory-handling-fix.patch bfs-correct-return-values.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html