Re: [PATCH v4] btrfs: improve error handling of btrfs_add_link()

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 03:14:17PM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> err holds the return value of either btrfs_del_root_ref() or
> btrfs_del_inode_ref() but it hasn't been checked since it's
> introduction with commit fe66a05a0679 (Btrfs: improve error handling
> for btrfs_insert_dir_item callers) in 2012.
> 
> To quote David:
> 
> "If the error handling in the error handling fails, there's not much left to do
> and the abort either happened earlier in the callees or is necessary here."
> 
> So if one of btrfs_del_root_ref() or btrfs_del_inode_ref() failed, abort the
> transaction.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20181126183759.GJ2842@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>

Thanks. I've updated the changelog a bit follwing the discussion we had
under the previous iterations.

Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>



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