Theodore Ts'o e7676a704e 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

2013-07-13 00:40:35 -04:00

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