[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH] dm: fix freeze_bdev() return value check
Akinobu Mita
akinobu.mita at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 14:23:03 UTC 2007
2007/9/24, Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita at gmail.com>:
> freeze_bdev() does not return errno as pointer on failure.
> This patch fixes the return value check.
I misunderstood the meaning of the return value of freeze_bdev().
I thought NULL returned by freeze_bdev means error. But it is wrong.
freeze_bdev returns NULL when there is no filesystem mounted on the
device with holding bd_mount_sem.
So this patch is totally broken.
But there is no reason to check the return value with IS_ERR().
Because freeze_bdev return NULL or valid super block
Subject: [PATCH] dm: remove freeze_bdev() return value check
From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita at gmail.com>
There is no reason to check the return value with IS_ERR().
Because freeze_bdev return NULL or valid super block.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita at gmail.com>
---
drivers/md/dm.c | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
Index: 2.6-git/drivers/md/dm.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-git.orig/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ 2.6-git/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1290,16 +1290,9 @@ out:
*/
static int lock_fs(struct mapped_device *md)
{
- int r;
-
WARN_ON(md->frozen_sb);
md->frozen_sb = freeze_bdev(md->suspended_bdev);
- if (IS_ERR(md->frozen_sb)) {
- r = PTR_ERR(md->frozen_sb);
- md->frozen_sb = NULL;
- return r;
- }
set_bit(DMF_FROZEN, &md->flags);
More information about the dm-devel
mailing list