1. 23 Aug, 2014 1 commit
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: propagate errors up to ext4_find_entry()'s callers · 36de9286
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      If we run into some kind of error, such as ENOMEM, while calling
      ext4_getblk() or ext4_dx_find_entry(), we need to make sure this error
      gets propagated up to ext4_find_entry() and then to its callers.  This
      way, transient errors such as ENOMEM can get propagated to the VFS.
      This is important so that the system calls return the appropriate
      error, and also so that in the case of ext4_lookup(), we return an
      error instead of a NULL inode, since that will result in a negative
      dentry cache entry that will stick around long past the OOM condition
      which caused a transient ENOMEM error.
      
      Google-Bug-Id: #17142205
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      36de9286
  2. 16 Aug, 2014 39 commits