The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: use retval instead of status for checking error has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-use-retval-instead-of-status-for-checking-error.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-use-retval-instead-of-status-for-checking-error.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-use-retval-instead-of-status-for-checking-error.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: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: use retval instead of status for checking error The use of 'status' in __ocfs2_add_entry() can return wrong value. Some functions' return value in __ocfs2_add_entry(), i.e ocfs2_journal_access_di() is saved to 'status'. But 'status' is not used in 'bail' label for returning result of __ocfs2_add_entry(). So use retval instead of status. Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/dir.c~ocfs2-use-retval-instead-of-status-for-checking-error fs/ocfs2/dir.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c~ocfs2-use-retval-instead-of-status-for-checking-error +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c @@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ int __ocfs2_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct ocfs2_dir_entry *de, *de1; struct ocfs2_dinode *di = (struct ocfs2_dinode *)parent_fe_bh->b_data; struct super_block *sb = dir->i_sb; - int retval, status; + int retval; unsigned int size = sb->s_blocksize; struct buffer_head *insert_bh = lookup->dl_leaf_bh; char *data_start = insert_bh->b_data; @@ -1695,25 +1695,25 @@ int __ocfs2_add_entry(handle_t *handle, } if (insert_bh == parent_fe_bh) - status = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, + retval = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, INODE_CACHE(dir), insert_bh, OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE); else { - status = ocfs2_journal_access_db(handle, + retval = ocfs2_journal_access_db(handle, INODE_CACHE(dir), insert_bh, OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE); - if (ocfs2_dir_indexed(dir)) { - status = ocfs2_dx_dir_insert(dir, + if (!retval && ocfs2_dir_indexed(dir)) + retval = ocfs2_dx_dir_insert(dir, handle, lookup); - if (status) { - mlog_errno(status); - goto bail; - } - } + } + + if (retval) { + mlog_errno(retval); + goto bail; } /* By now the buffer is marked for journaling */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch ocfs2-use-retval-instead-of-status-for-checking-error.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