On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 22:54 +0200, Jean-Christophe DUBOIS wrote:
> As per load_xattr_datum() comment:
> 	rc < 0 : recoverable error, try again
> 	rc = 0 : success
> 	rc > 0 : Unrecoverable error, this node should be deleted.
> 
> For now we were only returning negative number (so recoverable error).
> But a CRC failure or some inconsitent data seems fatal enough to
> consider the attribute instance (version) as lost.
> 
> So this patch returns a positive number (1) when it detects an
> unrecoverable error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net>

Looks sensible. But since I did not take your previous patch, you might
want to check whether this patch is really independent. Also, please,
tell  whether this fixes a real-life bug or you are fixing a complaint
of a static analysis tools or something like this? And please, tell how
you tested it.

Thanks!

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Artem Bityutskiy