This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
btrfs: fix incorrect error return ret being passed to mapping_set_error
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: btrfs-fix-incorrect-error-return-ret-being-passed-to-mapping_set_error.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 13:58:07 CEST 2018
From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 18:14:01 +0100 Subject: btrfs: fix incorrect error return ret being passed to mapping_set_error
From: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com
[ Upstream commit bff5baf8aa37a97293725a16c03f49872249c07e ]
The setting of return code ret should be based on the error code passed into function end_extent_writepage and not on ret. Thanks to Liu Bo for spotting this mistake in the original fix I submitted.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1414312 ("Logically dead code")
Fixes: 5dca6eea91653e ("Btrfs: mark mapping with error flag to report errors to userspace") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com Reviewed-by: Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c @@ -2438,7 +2438,7 @@ int end_extent_writepage(struct page *pa if (!uptodate) { ClearPageUptodate(page); SetPageError(page); - ret = ret < 0 ? ret : -EIO; + ret = err < 0 ? err : -EIO; mapping_set_error(page->mapping, ret); } return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from colin.king@canonical.com are
queue-3.18/wl1251-check-return-from-call-to-wl1251_acx_arp_ip_filter.patch queue-3.18/netxen_nic-set-rcode-to-the-return-status-from-the-call-to-netxen_issue_cmd.patch queue-3.18/btrfs-fix-incorrect-error-return-ret-being-passed-to-mapping_set_error.patch queue-3.18/ath5k-fix-memory-leak-on-buf-on-failed-eeprom-read.patch