This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

xfs: return a distinct error code value for IGET_INCORE cache misses

to the 4.14-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: xfs-return-a-distinct-error-code-value-for-iget_incore-cache-misses.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Mon Dec 18 13:28:59 CET 2017

From: "Darrick J. Wong" darrick.wong@oracle.com Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:37:32 -0700 Subject: xfs: return a distinct error code value for IGET_INCORE cache misses

From: "Darrick J. Wong" darrick.wong@oracle.com

[ Upstream commit ed438b476b611c67089760037139f93ea8ed41d5 ]

For an XFS_IGET_INCORE iget operation, if the inode isn't in the cache, return ENODATA so that we don't confuse it with the pre-existing ENOENT cases (inode is in cache, but freed).

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner dchinner@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ again: } else { rcu_read_unlock(); if (flags & XFS_IGET_INCORE) { - error = -ENOENT; + error = -ENODATA; goto out_error_or_again; } XFS_STATS_INC(mp, xs_ig_missed);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from darrick.wong@oracle.com are

queue-4.14/xfs-fix-incorrect-extent-state-in-xfs_bmap_add_extent_unwritten_real.patch queue-4.14/xfs-fix-log-block-underflow-during-recovery-cycle-verification.patch queue-4.14/xfs-truncate-pagecache-before-writeback-in-xfs_setattr_size.patch queue-4.14/xfs-return-a-distinct-error-code-value-for-iget_incore-cache-misses.patch