Hi Ben, On 11/03/2012 05:05 AM, Ben Myers wrote: > Hey Jeff, > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:28:05PM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: >> If we can not fetch the related a.g. info when freeing a disk inode, it mostly like a >> fatal issue was occurred and with ASSERT(0) is fine, however, return XFS_ERROR(EINVAL) >> does not make sense here. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> --- >> fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c | 3 --- >> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c >> index 445bf1a..b7ea965 100644 >> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c >> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c >> @@ -1065,7 +1065,6 @@ xfs_difree( >> xfs_warn(mp, "%s: agno >= mp->m_sb.sb_agcount (%d >= %d).", >> __func__, agno, mp->m_sb.sb_agcount); >> ASSERT(0); >> - return XFS_ERROR(EINVAL); >> } >> agino = XFS_INO_TO_AGINO(mp, inode); >> if (inode != XFS_AGINO_TO_INO(mp, agno, agino)) { >> @@ -1073,14 +1072,12 @@ xfs_difree( >> __func__, (unsigned long long)inode, >> (unsigned long long)XFS_AGINO_TO_INO(mp, agno, agino)); >> ASSERT(0); >> - return XFS_ERROR(EINVAL); >> } >> agbno = XFS_AGINO_TO_AGBNO(mp, agino); >> if (agbno >= mp->m_sb.sb_agblocks) { >> xfs_warn(mp, "%s: agbno >= mp->m_sb.sb_agblocks (%d >= %d).", >> __func__, agbno, mp->m_sb.sb_agblocks); >> ASSERT(0); >> - return XFS_ERROR(EINVAL); >> } >> /* >> * Get the allocation group header. > > Here the return of EINVAL is serving a useful purpose. The ASSERT is only > activated when xfs debug is configured on, so there is a very real chance that > you might exercise this code. Ah, I haven't realized that the ASSERT in XFS is configurable..:( > > My read on this is if you pass bad args to xfs_difree it will return EINVAL. > It's just a little defensive coding but it's worth keeping. In this case it > will result in forced shutdown of the filesystem, which is much better than the > [unspecified] baddness that could happen later in xfs_difree if you have passed > in garbage args. Definitely. > > There... I got my FUD in for the day. ;) Sorry for my false alarm, and thanks your for your teaching! Regards, -Jeff _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs