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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-07-13 04:40:35 (GMT)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-07-13 04:40:35 (GMT)
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ext4: don't allow ext4_free_blocks() to fail due to ENOMEM
The filesystem should not be marked inconsistent if ext4_free_blocks() is not able to allocate memory. Unfortunately some callers (most notably ext4_truncate) don't have a way to reflect an error back up to the VFS. And even if we did, most userspace applications won't deal with most system calls returning ENOMEM anyway. Reported-by: Nagachandra P <nagachandra@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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