[PATCH] xfs: fix xfs_error_get_cfg for negative errnos

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Fri Jul 8 14:32:17 CDT 2016


xfs_error_get_cfg() is called with bp->b_error as an arg,
which is negative, so the switch statement won't ever find
any matches.

This results in only the default error handler having
any effect, as EIO/ENOSPC/ENODEV get ignored due to the
wrong sign.

It seems simplest to always flip the error sign to positive,
so that we can handle either negative errors in bp->b_error,
or possibly a positive errno via something like
xfs_error_get_cfg(EIO) - this future-proofs the function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
---

I'm still chasing down some odd behaviors in the error handling
patches but this seems worth sending now :)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
index 4c2c550..79cfd3f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
@@ -634,6 +634,9 @@ xfs_error_get_cfg(
 {
 	struct xfs_error_cfg	*cfg;
 
+	if (error < 0)
+		error = -error;
+
 	switch (error) {
 	case EIO:
 		cfg = &mp->m_error_cfg[error_class][XFS_ERR_EIO];



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