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From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
To: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Cc: kjlu@umn.edu, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: remove BUG_ON used as assertions
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:42:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38c5aa97-675b-b4fa-14ab-04988a9c6a39@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191215171237.27482-1-pakki001@umn.edu>



On 15.12.19 г. 19:12 ч., Aditya Pakki wrote:
> alloc_extent_state_atomic() allocates extents via GFP_ATOMIC flag
> and cannot fail. There are multiple invocations of BUG_ON on the
> return value to check for failure. The patch replaces certain
> invocations of BUG_ON by returning the error upstream.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>

Have you actually audited all callers of __set_extent_bit whether they
correctly handle failures?

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-15 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-15 17:12 Aditya Pakki
2019-12-15 17:42 ` Nikolay Borisov [this message]
2019-12-18 16:31 ` David Sterba
2019-12-18 16:38 ` Josef Bacik
2019-12-18 16:47   ` David Sterba
2019-12-18 19:54     ` Josef Bacik

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