Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: Check the return value of xfs_trans_get_buf()

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:56:55AM -0500, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
> @@ -2948,6 +2948,8 @@ xfs_attr_leaf_freextent(xfs_trans_t **trans, 
> xfs_inode_t *dp,
>                       bp = xfs_trans_get_buf(*trans,
>                                       dp->i_mount->m_ddev_targp,
>                                       dblkno, dblkcnt, XBF_LOCK);
> +                     if (!bp)
> +                             return ENOMEM;
>                       xfs_trans_binval(*trans, bp);

xfs_trans_binval only really does anything if the buffer was in memory.

We have a few callers using that patterm, and I think they should simply
switch to not reading the buffer in if it's not there yet, e.g.
using something like an xfs_trans_incore.