The patch titled cramfs: propagate uncompression errors has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cramfs-propagate-uncompression-errors.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: cramfs: propagate uncompression errors From: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@xxxxxxxxx> If cramfs_uncompress_block() detects an error uncompressing it will return a zero value. This patch checks the return value and propagates the error back up to the block layer. Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cramfs/inode.c | 19 +++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/cramfs/inode.c~cramfs-propagate-uncompression-errors fs/cramfs/inode.c --- a/fs/cramfs/inode.c~cramfs-propagate-uncompression-errors +++ a/fs/cramfs/inode.c @@ -488,12 +488,19 @@ static int cramfs_readpage(struct file * compr_len); mutex_unlock(&read_mutex); } - } else - pgdata = kmap(page); - memset(pgdata + bytes_filled, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - bytes_filled); - kunmap(page); - flush_dcache_page(page); - SetPageUptodate(page); + + if (bytes_filled == 0) { + /* Decompression error */ + ClearPageUptodate(page); + SetPageError(page); + } else { + memset(pgdata + bytes_filled, 0, + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - bytes_filled); + flush_dcache_page(page); + SetPageUptodate(page); + } + kunmap(page); + } unlock_page(page); return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dvomlehn@xxxxxxxxx are cramfs-propagate-uncompression-errors.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html