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* [PATCH] ocfs2: restore -ERANGE check in ocfs2_xattr_tree_list_index_block()
@ 2026-09-22  9:42 Joseph Qi
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From: Joseph Qi @ 2026-09-22  9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Heming Zhao
  Cc: Mark Fasheh, Joel Becker, ocfs2-devel, linux-kernel

ocfs2_xattr_list_entry() returns -ERANGE when the buffer handed in by
the caller is too small to hold the whole xattr name list.  That is the
normal listxattr(2) protocol, userspace simply retries with a larger
buffer, so it is not an ocfs2 error and must not be logged as one.

Commit a46fa684fcb700 ("ocfs2: Don't printk the error when listing too
many xattrs.") already knew this and silenced two sites, quoting

  (27738,0):ocfs2_iterate_xattr_buckets:3158 ERROR: status = -34
  (27738,0):ocfs2_xattr_tree_list_index_block:3264 ERROR: status = -34

The refactoring in commit 47bca4950bc40f ("ocfs2: Abstract ocfs2 xattr
tree extend rec iteration process.") then rewrote
ocfs2_xattr_tree_list_index_block() around the new
ocfs2_iterate_xattr_index_block() helper and dropped that guard, so the
second message has been emitted ever since:

  ocfs2_xattr_tree_list_index_block:4513 ERROR: status = -34

The exemption in ocfs2_iterate_xattr_buckets() survived because that
function was left alone, and the new helper does check for -ERANGE
itself, which is why only the outermost caller still logs it.

Restore the missing check.  Only the log line changes: -ERANGE is still
returned to the VFS untouched, so listxattr(2) behaves exactly as
before.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
index 25fb23cc00d2..590b8b63d684 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -4521,7 +4521,8 @@ static int ocfs2_xattr_tree_list_index_block(struct inode *inode,
 	ret = ocfs2_iterate_xattr_index_block(inode, blk_bh,
 					      ocfs2_list_xattr_tree_rec, &xl);
 	if (ret) {
-		mlog_errno(ret);
+		if (ret != -ERANGE)
+			mlog_errno(ret);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-- 
2.39.3


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