Re: git: 62aef3f73f38 - main - vfs_cluster.c: Do not propagate VOP_BMAP errors to the caller

From: Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:53:37 UTC
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> The branch main has been updated by arrowd:
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> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=62aef3f73f38db9fb68bffc12cc8900fecd58f0e
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> commit 62aef3f73f38db9fb68bffc12cc8900fecd58f0e
> Author:     Gleb Popov <arrowd@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2025-07-11 07:42:09 +0000
> Commit:     Gleb Popov <arrowd@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2025-10-22 16:59:21 +0000
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>     vfs_cluster.c: Do not propagate VOP_BMAP errors to the caller
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>     The code that makes this VOP_BMAP call tries to perform a read-ahead I/O
>     operation. Failing to do that for any reason isn't fatal for `cluster_read()`,
>     because we still can return some data to the caller. This change is consistent
>     with other places within `cluster_read()`, where error returned by VOP_BMAP is
>     not returned to the caller - see the `if (nblks > 1)` block above the changed
>     lines and `if (reqbp)` at the end of the function.
>
>     PR:     264196
>     Approved by:    markj, kib
>     Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51254

Shall we MFC this change?  I think it affects 15.0-RELEASE.