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From: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: dead/wrong code in ext3/4_releasepage()
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:52:51 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FEDDD63.4000800@ya.ru> (raw)

Hello!

The implementation of ext4_releasepage() for many kernel versions
(as well as current git) is the following:

static int ext4_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
{
         journal_t *journal = EXT4_JOURNAL(page->mapping->host);

         trace_ext4_releasepage(page);

         WARN_ON(PageChecked(page));
         if (!page_has_buffers(page))
                 return 0;
         if (journal)
                 return jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers(journal, page, 
wait);
         else
                 return try_to_free_buffers(page);
}

The "if (!page_has_buffers(page))" check seems to be attempting to
handle the "nobh" case. However, the correct return value for this case
seems to be 1 (success), not 0 (failure).

This does not lead to oom or any similar issue since calls to 
try_to_release_page()
are accompanied by page_has_private() checks.

If ->release_page() can be called without a prior check, then
the return code is wrong. Otherwise, the check is dead code.

What do you think?

Thank you,
Andrew

             reply	other threads:[~2012-06-29 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-29 16:52 Andrew Perepechko [this message]
2012-07-02 17:09 ` dead/wrong code in ext3/4_releasepage() Jan Kara
2012-07-02 17:14   ` Andrew Perepechko
2012-07-02 17:33     ` Jan Kara
2012-07-02 18:17       ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-07-02 18:19         ` Andrew Perepechko

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