[PATCH] Return -EIO when xfs_vn_getattr() failed

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sun Sep 18 14:59:57 CDT 2011


On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:38:38PM +0900, Mitsuo Hayasaka wrote:
> An attribute of inode can be fetched via xfs_vn_getattr() in XFS.
> Currently it returns EIO, not negative value, when it failed.
> As a result, the system call returns not negative value even though
> an error occured. The stat(2), ls and mv commands cannot handle this
> error and do not work correctly.
> 
> This patch fixes this bug, and returns -EIO, not EIO when an error
> is detected in xfs_vn_getattr().

Indeed.  Looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>




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