On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:55:26PM +0800, fishland wrote:
> The jinode does not need protected by *i_lock*, we can return
> directly if memory allocation fails.
>
I don't see anything wrong with this patch, but at the same time, I'm
not sure I see the benefit, either. Checking for the allocation
failure is cheap, and moving it out spinlock doesn't buy much; not to
mention that the allocation failure is going to be highly uncommon.
What inspired this commit?
- Ted
> Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liu.son...@zte.com.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Wang Yi <wang.y...@zte.com.cn>
> ---
> fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index d767e993591d..67ba6f062de5 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -4384,12 +4384,11 @@ int ext4_inode_attach_jinode(struct inode *inode)
> return 0;
>
> jinode = jbd2_alloc_inode(GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!jinode)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> if (!ei->jinode) {
> - if (!jinode) {
> - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - }
> ei->jinode = jinode;
> jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode(ei->jinode, inode);
> jinode = NULL;
> --
> 2.17.1
>
