[PATCH RESEND] Ext4: No need to add inode to orphan list during hole punch

From: Ashish Sangwan
Date: Wed Jul 25 2012 - 10:23:48 EST


While performing punch hole for an inode, i_disksize is not changed.
So, there is no need to add the inode to orphan list.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <ashish.sangwan2@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 91341ec..3e902f9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4801,9 +4801,6 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
if (IS_ERR(handle))
return PTR_ERR(handle);

- err = ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
- if (err)
- goto out;

/*
* Now we need to zero out the non-page-aligned data in the
@@ -4889,7 +4886,6 @@ int ext4_ext_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);

out:
- ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode);
inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
--
1.7.10.4

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