Re: [PATCH] JFS: return correct error when i-node allocation failed

From: Dave Kleikamp
Date: Thu Sep 14 2006 - 10:25:14 EST


On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 17:52 +0800, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> I have seen confusing behavior on JFS when I injected many intentional
> slab allocation errors. The cp command failed with no disk space error
> with enough disk space.

Thanks. I'll push this upstream.

>
> This patch makes:
>
> - change the return value in case slab allocation failures happen
> from -ENOSPC to -ENOMEM
>
> - ialloc() return error code so that the caller can know the reason
> of failures
>
> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c | 4 ++--
> fs/jfs/jfs_inode.c | 9 +++++----
> fs/jfs/jfs_unicode.c | 2 +-
> fs/jfs/namei.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> fs/jfs/super.c | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> Index: work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/jfs_inode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- work-shouldfail.orig/fs/jfs/jfs_inode.c
> +++ work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/jfs_inode.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ struct inode *ialloc(struct inode *paren
> inode = new_inode(sb);
> if (!inode) {
> jfs_warn("ialloc: new_inode returned NULL!");
> - return inode;
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> }
>
> jfs_inode = JFS_IP(inode);
> @@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ struct inode *ialloc(struct inode *paren
> rc = diAlloc(parent, S_ISDIR(mode), inode);
> if (rc) {
> jfs_warn("ialloc: diAlloc returned %d!", rc);
> - make_bad_inode(inode);
> + if (rc == -EIO)
> + make_bad_inode(inode);
> iput(inode);
> - return NULL;
> + return ERR_PTR(rc);
> }
>
> inode->i_uid = current->fsuid;
> @@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ struct inode *ialloc(struct inode *paren
> inode->i_flags |= S_NOQUOTA;
> inode->i_nlink = 0;
> iput(inode);
> - return NULL;
> + return ERR_PTR(-EDQUOT);
> }
>
> inode->i_mode = mode;
> Index: work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/namei.c
> ===================================================================
> --- work-shouldfail.orig/fs/jfs/namei.c
> +++ work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/namei.c
> @@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ static int jfs_create(struct inode *dip,
> * begin the transaction before we search the directory.
> */
> ip = ialloc(dip, mode);
> - if (ip == NULL) {
> - rc = -ENOSPC;
> + if (IS_ERR(ip)) {
> + rc = PTR_ERR(ip);
> goto out2;
> }
>
> @@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ static int jfs_mkdir(struct inode *dip,
> * begin the transaction before we search the directory.
> */
> ip = ialloc(dip, S_IFDIR | mode);
> - if (ip == NULL) {
> - rc = -ENOSPC;
> + if (IS_ERR(ip)) {
> + rc = PTR_ERR(ip);
> goto out2;
> }
>
> @@ -908,8 +908,8 @@ static int jfs_symlink(struct inode *dip
> * (iAlloc() returns new, locked inode)
> */
> ip = ialloc(dip, S_IFLNK | 0777);
> - if (ip == NULL) {
> - rc = -ENOSPC;
> + if (IS_ERR(ip)) {
> + rc = PTR_ERR(ip);
> goto out2;
> }
>
> @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ static int jfs_symlink(struct inode *dip
> xlen = xsize >> JFS_SBI(sb)->l2bsize;
> if ((rc = xtInsert(tid, ip, 0, 0, xlen, &xaddr, 0))) {
> txAbort(tid, 0);
> - rc = -ENOSPC;
> + rc = ERR_PTR(rc);

Compiler warning. I just removed this line completely.

> goto out3;
> }
> extent = xaddr;
> @@ -1352,8 +1352,8 @@ static int jfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
> goto out;
>
> ip = ialloc(dir, mode);
> - if (ip == NULL) {
> - rc = -ENOSPC;
> + if (IS_ERR(ip)) {
> + rc = PTR_ERR(ip);
> goto out1;
> }
> jfs_ip = JFS_IP(ip);
> Index: work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
> ===================================================================
> --- work-shouldfail.orig/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
> +++ work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c
> @@ -3780,13 +3780,13 @@ static int ciGetLeafPrefixKey(dtpage_t *
> lkey.name = (wchar_t *) kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (lkey.name == NULL)
> - return -ENOSPC;
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> rkey.name = (wchar_t *) kmalloc((JFS_NAME_MAX + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (rkey.name == NULL) {
> kfree(lkey.name);
> - return -ENOSPC;
> + return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
> /* get left and right key */
> Index: work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/super.c
> ===================================================================
> --- work-shouldfail.orig/fs/jfs/super.c
> +++ work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/super.c
> @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static int jfs_fill_super(struct super_b
>
> sbi = kzalloc(sizeof (struct jfs_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!sbi)
> - return -ENOSPC;
> + return -ENOMEM;
> sb->s_fs_info = sbi;
> sbi->sb = sb;
> sbi->uid = sbi->gid = sbi->umask = -1;
> Index: work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/jfs_unicode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- work-shouldfail.orig/fs/jfs/jfs_unicode.c
> +++ work-shouldfail/fs/jfs/jfs_unicode.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ int get_UCSname(struct component_name *
> kmalloc((length + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t), GFP_NOFS);
>
> if (uniName->name == NULL)
> - return -ENOSPC;
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> uniName->namlen = jfs_strtoUCS(uniName->name, dentry->d_name.name,
> length, nls_tab);

Thanks,
Shaggy
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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