Re: [PATCH] OCFS2: remove useless err

From: Joseph Qi
Date: Tue Feb 04 2020 - 06:34:43 EST




On 20/2/4 18:59, Alex Shi wrote:
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>
> å 2020/1/26 äå9:52, Joseph Qi åé:
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>
>>>
>>> @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static struct buffer_head *ocfs2_find_entry_el(const char *name, int namelen,
>>> num++;
>>>
>>> bh = NULL;
>>> - err = ocfs2_read_dir_block(dir, b++, &bh,
>>> + ocfs2_read_dir_block(dir, b++, &bh,
>>> OCFS2_BH_READAHEAD);
>>
>> Umm... missing error checking here?
>
>
> /*
> * This function forces all errors to -EIO for consistency with its
> * predecessor, ocfs2_bread(). We haven't audited what returning the
> * real error codes would do to callers. We log the real codes with
> * mlog_errno() before we squash them.
> */
> static int ocfs2_read_dir_block(struct inode *inode, u64 v_block,
> struct buffer_head **bh, int flags)
>
> According to ocfs2_read_dir_block comments, caller don't care the err value, func will log it.
>
> So is this patch ok? :)
>
If we got error here, it means the buffer head is invalid.
So how about mark it as NULL and skip it?

Thanks,
Joseph