Re: [PATCH] Return -EIO when xfs_vn_getattr() failed

From: Alex Elder
Date: Mon Sep 19 2011 - 12:54:45 EST


On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 22:38 +0900, Mitsuo Hayasaka wrote:
> An attribute of inode can be fetched via xfs_vn_getattr() in XFS.
> Currently it returns EIO, not negative value, when it failed.
> As a result, the system call returns not negative value even though
> an error occured. The stat(2), ls and mv commands cannot handle this
> error and do not work correctly.
>
> This patch fixes this bug, and returns -EIO, not EIO when an error
> is detected in xfs_vn_getattr().
>
> Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>


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