[PATCH 5/9] xfs: xfs_bioerror can die.

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Thu Aug 28 19:28:25 CDT 2014


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 04:39:03PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Internal buffer write error handling is a mess due to the unnatural
> split between xfs_bioerror and xfs_bioerror_relse(). The buffer
> reference counting is also wrong for the xfs_bioerror path for
> xfs_bwrite - it uses sync IO and so xfs_buf_ioend will release a
> hold count that was never taken.

Which seems to be cause by patch 1 in the series, and thus the
additional hold for the error case should be introduced there.

Otherwise this looks good to me.



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