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Commit e7676a70 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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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: default avatarNagachandra P <nagachandra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
parent bdafe42a
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