From: Bryan Donlan Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext[234]: Return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:53:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3e8340490902200953p704fd9dbuff0a7a890895ea23@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090214141411.GD26628@mini-me.lan> <1234833003-19631-1-git-send-email-bdonlan@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, adilger@sun.com, tytso@mit.edu, Bryan Donlan To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:46914 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752128AbZBTRxk (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:53:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1234833003-19631-1-git-send-email-bdonlan@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Bryan Donlan wrote: > + if (unlikely(IS_ERR(inode))) { > + if (PTR_ERR(inode) == -ESTALE) { > + ext3_error(dir->i_sb, "ext2_lookup", > + "deleted inode referenced: %lu", > + ino); > + return ERR_PTR(-EIO); > + } else { > + return ERR_CAST(inode); > + } > + } I just noticed that I forgot to edit the function name in the ext3_error and ext4_error invocations... Would it be better to send a delta to fix this or resubmit the whole thing?