The patch titled Subject: fs: hfsplus: make extend error rate limited has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is fs-hfsplus-make-extend-error-rate-limited.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fs-hfsplus-make-extend-error-rate-limited.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs: hfsplus: make extend error rate limited Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:17:35 +0100 Extending a file where there is not enough free space can trigger frequent extend alloc file error messages and this can easily spam the kernel log. Make the error message rate limited. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719121735.2831164-1-colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hfsplus/extents.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/hfsplus/extents.c~fs-hfsplus-make-extend-error-rate-limited +++ a/fs/hfsplus/extents.c @@ -448,9 +448,9 @@ int hfsplus_file_extend(struct inode *in if (sbi->alloc_file->i_size * 8 < sbi->total_blocks - sbi->free_blocks + 8) { /* extend alloc file */ - pr_err("extend alloc file! (%llu,%u,%u)\n", - sbi->alloc_file->i_size * 8, - sbi->total_blocks, sbi->free_blocks); + pr_err_ratelimited("extend alloc file! (%llu,%u,%u)\n", + sbi->alloc_file->i_size * 8, + sbi->total_blocks, sbi->free_blocks); return -ENOSPC; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx are fs-hfsplus-make-extend-error-rate-limited.patch