On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 08:20:47PM -0500, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> This fixes the incorrect return statement if failure occurs by
> returning 0 rather then the variable ret which may hold a error
> code to signal when a failure has occurred in the function
> btrfs_mark_extent_written to its callers rather then always
> making this function appear to run successfully to its callers
> by always returning zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <[email protected]>
> ---
> fs/btrfs/file.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> index b823fac..7a9ab8e 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ again:
> }
> out:
> btrfs_free_path(path);
> - return 0;
> + return ret;
> }
We're checking ret higher up and aborting the transaction properly.
There is at least one place ret will be non-zero above that isn't an
error, but you're passing it to the caller here making them think it has
gone wrong.
-chris