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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: Check the return value of xfs_trans_get_buf()
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:05:54PM -0500, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
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> Hi Christoph,
> 
> I do not understand. Can you elaborate on what needs to be done.

All callers that do the xfs_trans_binval only really care about buffers
that already exist.  So we don't even have to allocate a new buffer
if it isn't in memory yet - note that it generally will be given that
the buffer is attached to the transaction.

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