From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Ext3: return ENOMEM rather than EIO if sb_getblk fails Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:59:22 -0800 Message-ID: <20130114035922.GA3809@kroah.com> References: <1294915634-3413-1-git-send-email-wangshilong1991@gmail.com> <20130113044342.GA11738@kroah.com> <20130114034538.GB29329@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Wang shilong , jack@suse.cz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Wang Shilong To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130114034538.GB29329@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:45:38PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 08:43:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 06:47:14PM +0800, Wang shilong wrote: > > > From: Wang Shilong > > > > > > It will be better to have ENOMEM return rather than EIO,because > > > the only reason that sb_getblk fails is allocation fails. > > > > > > > > > > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > > stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > > for how to do this properly. > > > > > > Did Wang Shilong bcc stable@vger.kernel.org? Yes he did, which triggered my semi-automatic-bot response.