Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: cleanup redundant code in __btrfs_close_devices()

[Wang Shilong <wangshilong1991@gmail.com>]

> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> On 09/08/2013 12:15 AM, Azat Khuzhin wrote:
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  fs/btrfs/volumes.c |    2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
>>> index 1d1b595..124228e 100644
>>> --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
>>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
>>> @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ static int __btrfs_close_devices(struct
>>> btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices)
>>>                /* Safe because we are under uuid_mutex */
>>>                if (device->name) {
>>>                        name = rcu_string_strdup(device->name->str,
>>> GFP_NOFS);
>>> -                       BUG_ON(device->name && !name); /* -ENOMEM */
>>> +                       BUG_ON(!name); /* -ENOMEM *
>> 
>> Nice catch! out of memory should not trigger BUG_ON()..
>> Maybe we can handle it gracefully.
> 
> Maybe return -ENOMEM ?

Yeah, BUG_On is really unfriendly. And here ENOMEM triggers
BUG_ON() is a lazy approach.

I think we can  return -ENOMEM rather than BUG_ON(), the caller can handle this.

Thanks,
Wang
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Wang
>> 
>>>                        rcu_assign_pointer(new_device->name, name);
>>>                }
>>>                new_device->bdev = NULL;
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Respectfully
> Azat Khuzhin
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