This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled rbd: Fix error recovery in rbd_obj_read_sync() to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ >From c71e0efe1eeb425d5c5c21f491455522737b3e2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:17:24 +0200 Subject: rbd: Fix error recovery in rbd_obj_read_sync() commit a8d4205623ae965e36c68629db306ca0695a2771 upstream. When we fail to allocate page vector in rbd_obj_read_sync() we just basically ignore the problem and continue which will result in an oops later. Fix the problem by returning proper error. CC: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Coverity-id: 1226882 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/rbd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c index 9dc02c429771..a15500662f4c 100644 --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c @@ -3389,7 +3389,7 @@ static int rbd_obj_read_sync(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev, page_count = (u32) calc_pages_for(offset, length); pages = ceph_alloc_page_vector(page_count, GFP_KERNEL); if (IS_ERR(pages)) - ret = PTR_ERR(pages); + return PTR_ERR(pages); ret = -ENOMEM; obj_request = rbd_obj_request_create(object_name, offset, length, -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html