[Patch 2/8] 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Fix out-of-inodes handling

[Stephen Tweedie]

Don't consider ENOSPC as a fatal error when allocating an inode.  Otherwise
running out of inodes marks the fs as having an error, potentially taking
the kernel down if we are in panic-on-error fs mode.

--- linux-ext3-2.4merge/fs/ext3/ialloc.c.=K0003=.orig	Tue Aug 27 23:17:07 2002
+++ linux-ext3-2.4merge/fs/ext3/ialloc.c	Tue Aug 27 23:19:57 2002
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
 
 	err = -ENOSPC;
 	if (!gdp)
-		goto fail;
+		goto out;
 
 	err = -EIO;
 	bitmap_nr = load_inode_bitmap (sb, i);
@@ -523,9 +523,10 @@
 	return inode;
 
 fail:
+	ext3_std_error(sb, err);
+out:
 	unlock_super(sb);
 	iput(inode);
-	ext3_std_error(sb, err);
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }