[PATCH 7/7] mm: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio
David Sterba
dsterba at suse.cz
Mon Jan 23 07:44:47 PST 2023
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 07:57:55AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of returning NULL for all errors, distinguish between:
>
> - no entry found and not asked to allocated (-ENOENT)
> - failed to allocate memory (-ENOMEM)
> - would block (-EAGAIN)
>
> so that callers don't have to guess the error based on the passed
> in flags.
>
> Also pass through the error through the direct callers:
> filemap_get_folio, filemap_lock_folio filemap_grab_folio
> and filemap_get_incore_folio.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
> fs/afs/dir.c | 10 +++++-----
> fs/afs/dir_edit.c | 2 +-
> fs/afs/write.c | 4 ++--
For
> fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba at suse.com>
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