On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:53:17AM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> btrfs_udpate_root can fail and it aborts the transaction, the correct way to
> handle an aborted transaction is to explicitly end with btrfs_end_transaction.
> Even now the code is correct since btrfs_commit_transaction would handle an
> aborted transaction but this is more of an implementation detail. So let's be
> explicit in handling failure in btrfs_update_root.
> 
> Furthermore btrfs_commit_transaction can also fail and by ignoring it's return
> value we could have left the in-memory copy of the root item in an 
> inconsistent
> state. So capture the error value which allows us to correctly revert the 
> RO/RW
> flags in case of commit failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nbori...@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dste...@suse.com>
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