[PATCH] Test for sb_getblk return value

From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 08:23:55 EST


Hi all,

As we discussed earlier, I'm sending a patch that adds test for the
return value of sb_getblk. This time I focused on the code of the ext2/3
filesystems. I'm assuming that getblk fails happens due to I/O errors
and thus returning returning an EIO back wherever it's needed.

Al, hope it's better this time.

--
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa
IBM Linux Technology Center - Brazil
glommer@xxxxxxxxxx
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diff -Naurp linux-2.6.14-rc2-orig/fs/ext2/inode.c linux-2.6.14-rc2-cleanp/fs/ext2/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.14-rc2-orig/fs/ext2/inode.c 2005-09-26 13:58:15.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc2-cleanp/fs/ext2/inode.c 2005-10-17 12:32:46.000000000 +0000
@@ -439,7 +439,10 @@ static int ext2_alloc_branch(struct inod
* Get buffer_head for parent block, zero it out and set
* the pointer to new one, then send parent to disk.
*/
- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, parent);
+ if (!(bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, parent))){
+ err = -EIO;
+ break;
+ }
lock_buffer(bh);
memset(bh->b_data, 0, blocksize);
branch[n].bh = bh;
diff -Naurp linux-2.6.14-rc2-orig/fs/ext3/inode.c linux-2.6.14-rc2-cleanp/fs/ext3/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.14-rc2-orig/fs/ext3/inode.c 2005-10-09 20:26:54.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc2-cleanp/fs/ext3/inode.c 2005-10-17 12:28:38.000000000 +0000
@@ -523,14 +523,15 @@ static int ext3_alloc_branch(handle_t *h
if (!nr)
break;
branch[n].key = cpu_to_le32(nr);
- keys = n+1;

/*
* Get buffer_head for parent block, zero it out
* and set the pointer to new one, then send
* parent to disk.
*/
- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, parent);
+ if (!(bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, parent)))
+ break;
+ keys = n+1;
branch[n].bh = bh;
lock_buffer(bh);
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call get_create_access");
@@ -863,7 +864,10 @@ struct buffer_head *ext3_getblk(handle_t
*errp = ext3_get_block_handle(handle, inode, block, &dummy, create, 1);
if (!*errp && buffer_mapped(&dummy)) {
struct buffer_head *bh;
- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, dummy.b_blocknr);
+ if (!(bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, dummy.b_blocknr))){
+ *errp = -EIO;
+ return NULL;
+ }
if (buffer_new(&dummy)) {
J_ASSERT(create != 0);
J_ASSERT(handle != 0);
diff -Naurp linux-2.6.14-rc2-orig/fs/ext3/resize.c linux-2.6.14-rc2-cleanp/fs/ext3/resize.c
--- linux-2.6.14-rc2-orig/fs/ext3/resize.c 2005-10-09 19:58:40.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc2-cleanp/fs/ext3/resize.c 2005-10-17 12:41:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ static struct buffer_head *bclean(handle
struct buffer_head *bh;
int err;

- bh = sb_getblk(sb, blk);
+ if (!(bh = sb_getblk(sb, blk)))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
if ((err = ext3_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh))) {
brelse(bh);
bh = ERR_PTR(err);
@@ -201,7 +202,10 @@ static int setup_new_group_blocks(struct

ext3_debug("update backup group %#04lx (+%d)\n", block, bit);

- gdb = sb_getblk(sb, block);
+ if (!(gdb = sb_getblk(sb, block))){
+ err = -EIO;
+ goto exit_bh;
+ }
if ((err = ext3_journal_get_write_access(handle, gdb))) {
brelse(gdb);
goto exit_bh;
@@ -642,7 +646,10 @@ static void update_backups(struct super_
(err = ext3_journal_restart(handle, EXT3_MAX_TRANS_DATA)))
break;

- bh = sb_getblk(sb, group * bpg + blk_off);
+ if (!(bh = sb_getblk(sb, group * bpg + blk_off))){
+ err = -EIO;
+ goto exit_err;
+ }
ext3_debug("update metadata backup %#04lx\n",
(unsigned long)bh->b_blocknr);
if ((err = ext3_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh)))