From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@sphairon.com>

There is no use in continuing the write operation after fat_bmap() fails.
(This successfully killed a VFAT FS for me).
The corresponding code in 2.6 does return here as well, AFAICT.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife@sphairon.com>
---
 fs/fat/file.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fat/file.c b/fs/fat/file.c
index ade1a71..75efe74 100644
--- a/fs/fat/file.c
+++ b/fs/fat/file.c
@@ -72,8 +72,10 @@ int fat_get_block(struct inode *inode, long iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_resul
 	}
 	MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private += sb->s_blocksize;
 	phys = fat_bmap(inode, iblock);
-	if (!phys)
+	if (!phys) {
 		BUG();
+		return -EIO;
+	}
 	bh_result->b_dev = inode->i_dev;
 	bh_result->b_blocknr = phys;
 	bh_result->b_state |= (1UL << BH_Mapped);
-- 
1.6.4.2

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Hello Stefan,


OK then that's fine, I'm merging it.

Thanks!
Willy

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Hi Willy,

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:06:31 +0100

I'd like to add that I am not a filesystem expert at all, so if
somebody wants to suggest a better return code, I'm all for that.

And the dosfs code in 2.6 is substantially different, thus the "AFAICT"
above ;)

Anyway, continuing at that place (when phys == 0) is definitely
wrong, since writing to block 0 later on will kill the filesystem 100%.

I triggered this with a corrumpted file, which an application wanted to
modify, dosfsck had this to say about the file system:

strolchi:~ # dosfsck -nv /dev/sdb1
dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Boot sector contents:
System ID "MSDOS5.0"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     16384 bytes per cluster
         1 reserved sector
First FAT starts at byte 512 (sector 1)
         2 FATs, 16 bit entries
    124928 bytes per FAT (= 244 sectors)
Root directory starts at byte 250368 (sector 489)
       512 root directory entries
Data area starts at byte 266752 (sector 521)
     62283 data clusters (1020444672 bytes)
63 sectors/track, 32 heads
       247 hidden sectors
   1993577 sectors total
/test/test.db
  File size is 188928 bytes, cluster chain length is 163840 bytes.
  Truncating file to 163840 bytes.
Checking for unused clusters.
Reclaimed 2 unused clusters (32768 bytes).
Leaving file system unchanged.
/dev/sdb1: 201 files, 51608/62283 clusters

Thanks for merging and taking care of the "old lady" 2.4 ;)

	Stefan
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"Well, surrounding them's out."
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