The patch titled ext2: improve ext2_readdir() return value has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext2-improve-ext2_readdir-return-value.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext2: improve ext2_readdir() return value From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Improve ext2_readdir() return value for ext2_get_page() failure by using the actual result of ext2_get_page(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext2/dir.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext2/dir.c~ext2-improve-ext2_readdir-return-value fs/ext2/dir.c --- a/fs/ext2/dir.c~ext2-improve-ext2_readdir-return-value +++ a/fs/ext2/dir.c @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ ext2_readdir (struct file * filp, void * "bad page in #%lu", inode->i_ino); filp->f_pos += PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset; - return -EIO; + return PTR_ERR(page); } kaddr = page_address(page); if (unlikely(need_revalidate)) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are git-dvb.patch ext2-improve-ext2_readdir-return-value.patch ext2-use-ext2_group_first_block_no.patch ext2-use-ext2_fsblk_t-type.patch ext3-use-ext3_group_first_block_no.patch ext3-add-missing-ext3_journal_stop.patch ext3-use-ext3_get_group_desc.patch ext3-check-ext3_journal_get_write_access-errors.patch ext4-use-ext4_group_first_block_no.patch ext4-add-missing-ext4_journal_stop.patch ext4-use-ext4_get_group_desc.patch ext4-check-ext4_journal_get_write_access-errors.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html