[PATCH v3 RESEND] staging: erofs: fix an error handling in erofs_readdir()
Gao Xiang
hsiangkao at aol.com
Sun Aug 18 22:38:59 AEST 2019
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 05:33:14AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 11:21:11AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > + if (dentry_page == ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) {
> > + errln("no memory to readdir of logical block %u of nid %llu",
> > + i, EROFS_V(dir)->nid);
>
> I don't think you need the error message. If we get a memory allocation
> failure, there's already going to be a lot of spew in the logs from the
> mm system. And if we do fail to allocate memory, we don't need to know
> the logical block number or the nid -- it has nothiing to do with those;
> the system simply ran out of memory.
OK, I agree with you. There is a messy of messages when
memory allocation fail.
Since I don't really care apart from crashing or hanging
the kernel, I will resend the patch to make you and Chao
happy... :)
Thanks,
Gao Xiang
>
> > + err = -ENOMEM;
> > + break;
> > + } else if (IS_ERR(dentry_page)) {
> > + errln("fail to readdir of logical block %u of nid %llu",
> > + i, EROFS_V(dir)->nid);
> > + err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
> > + break;
> > + }
> >
> > de = (struct erofs_dirent *)kmap(dentry_page);
> >
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
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