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From: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 010/455] block_write_full_page(): report ENOSPC
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 13:57:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46406595.2000205@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705080723.l487NR1v016370@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

akpm@linux-foundation.org a écrit :
> block_write_full_page() forgot to propagate ENPSOC into the address_space.

> --- a/fs/buffer.c~block_write_full_page-handle-enospc
> +++ a/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -1727,6 +1727,7 @@ recover:
>  	} while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
>  	SetPageError(page);
>  	BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
> +	mapping_set_error(page->mapping, err);
>  	set_page_writeback(page);
>  	do {
>  		struct buffer_head *next = bh->b_this_page;

As I said in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/9/336 I am not aware of any 
call stack where the error is dropped here.

So, this patch should not harm but I am not sure it does any good.

Thanks.

-- 
Guillaume

           reply	other threads:[~2007-05-08 11:59 UTC|newest]

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