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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix 'return 0' for error case in ext4_fill_super
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:38:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118223805.GA15575@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101118222157.GE18195@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:21:57PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:47:12PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:

> > This patch fixes the issue by using the 'err' variable instead of 'ret'
> > for that function-call like it is done in for all other function-calls
> > in ext4_fill_super too.
> > If have seen this issue on 2.6.36 too, so this patch may be -stable
> > material as well.
> 
> Lukas and I have been trying to fix this bug for a couple of days now, and he
> actually sent off an identical patch this morning:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg21743.html
> 
> (I also sent off a similar cleanup of the ext3 counterpart.)
> 
> But, thanks for pointing this out! :)

Oh ok, good to know. I ran into this issue today when I installed a new
kernel on that machine and the 'update-grub' command gave me an ooops.
Good to know it will be fixed soon :)

	Joerg


      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18 21:47 [PATCH] ext4: Fix 'return 0' for error case in ext4_fill_super Joerg Roedel
2010-11-18 22:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-11-18 22:38   ` Joerg Roedel [this message]

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