Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Fix an error handling path in btrfs_read_sys_array()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue May 17 2022 - 01:56:15 EST


On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 07:42:23PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Le 16/05/2022 à 17:01, David Sterba a écrit :
> > On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 04:54:07PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 06:57:25AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 2022/5/14 20:01, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > > > > If alloc_dummy_extent_buffer() we should return an error code, not 0 that
> > > > > would mean success.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: a1fc41ac28d3 ("btrfs: use dummy extent buffer for super block sys chunk array read")
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > All my fault, thanks for catching it.
> > > > Qu
> > > >
> > >
> > > I sent this patch in January and David was going to fold it into the
> > > original patch but it got lost. Thanks, Christophe!
>
> Hi,
>
> Not exactly.
> Your patch was:
> - if (IS_ERR(sb))
> - return PTR_ERR(sb);
> + if (!sb)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> Mine is only:
> - return PTR_ERR(sb);
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> So for some reason, what you had reported was just half applied. (or half
> fixed by someone else)
>

Oh that's interesting. I must have seen the same Smatch warning that
you saw and ignored it because I got confused which patch I had sent.
The kbuild-bot also tried to send a warning, but I squashed it for
the same reasons. So in terms of process issues and avoidable bugs this
one is partly my bad.

regards,
dan carpenter