Re: [PATCH] ext4: clean up ext4_ext_insert_extent() call in ext4_ext_map_blocks()

["Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 04:50:33PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Now that the eofblocks code has been removed, we don't need to assign
> 0 to err before calling ext4_ext_insert_extent() since it will assign
> a return value to ret anyway.  The variable free_on_err can be
> eliminated and replaced by a reference to allocated_clusters which
> clearly conveys the idea that newly allocated blocks should be freed
> when recovering from an extent insertion failure.  The error handling
> code itself should be restructured so that it errors out immediately on
> an insertion failure in the case where no new blocks have been allocated
> (bigalloc) rather than proceeding further into the mapping code.  The
> initializer for fb_flags can also be rearranged for improved
> readability.  Finally, insert a missing space in nearby code.
> 
> No known bugs are addressed by this patch - it's simply a cleanup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted