Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph updates for 5.13-rc1 | From | Jeff Layton <> | Date | Fri, 07 May 2021 08:25:36 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2021-05-07 at 11:03 +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:51 PM Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:33 AM Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > There is a merge conflict in fs/ceph/dir.c because Jeff's inode > > > type handling patch went through the vfs tree together with Al's > > > inode_wrong_type() helper. for-linus-merged has the resolution. > > > > Actually, the linux-next resolution looks wrong - or at least > > unnecessary - to me. > > > > The conversion to d_splice_alias() means that the IS_ERR() test is now > > pointless, because d_splice_alias() handles an error-pointer natively, > > and just returns the error back with ERR_CAST(). > > > > So the proper resolution seems to be to just drop the IS_ERR(). > > > > Adding Jeff and Al just as a heads-up. > > I did it mechanically and then cross-checked against Jeff's patch: > > https://lore.kernel.org/ceph-devel/20210316203919.102346-1-jlayton@kernel.org/T/#u > > I guess neither Jeff nor I noticed that ERR_CAST() is redundant > because previously ceph_get_snapdir() didn't have any error handling > and the explicit check (which Jeff added in another patch that went > through Al's tree) felt "precious". >
Yep, I missed that special error handling too. The final fixup looks fine.
Cheers, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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