The patch titled nilfs2: introduce secondary super block fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is nilfs2-introduce-secondary-super-block-fix.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: nilfs2: introduce secondary super block fix From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This fixes a missing substitution of error code in nilfs2-introduce-secondary-super-block.patch, and deletes an unnecessary initialization done for the same error variable. The problem comes to surface if the blocksize recorded in super block is not supported by hardware. In that case, init_nilfs() function will wrongly return with a success code and would trigger a kernel fault. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c~nilfs2-introduce-secondary-super-block-fix fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c --- a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c~nilfs2-introduce-secondary-super-block-fix +++ a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ int init_nilfs(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, struct nilfs_super_block *sbp; struct backing_dev_info *bdi; int blocksize; - int err = 0; + int err; down_write(&nilfs->ns_sem); if (nilfs_init(nilfs)) { @@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ int init_nilfs(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, "NILFS: blocksize %d too small for device " "(sector-size = %d).\n", blocksize, hw_blocksize); + err = -EINVAL; goto failed_sbh; } nilfs_release_super_block(nilfs); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are nilfs2-add-document.patch nilfs2-disk-format-and-userland-interface.patch nilfs2-add-inode-and-other-major-structures.patch nilfs2-integrated-block-mapping.patch nilfs2-integrated-block-mapping-remove-nilfs-bmap-wrapper-macros.patch nilfs2-integrated-block-mapping-remove-nilfs-bmap-wrapper-macros-checkpatch-fixes.patch nilfs2-b-tree-based-block-mapping.patch nilfs2-direct-block-mapping.patch nilfs2-b-tree-node-cache.patch nilfs2-buffer-and-page-operations.patch nilfs2-meta-data-file.patch nilfs2-persistent-object-allocator.patch nilfs2-disk-address-translator.patch nilfs2-inode-map-file.patch nilfs2-checkpoint-file.patch nilfs2-segment-usage-file.patch nilfs2-segment-usage-file-fix-wrong-counting-of-checkpoints-and-dirty-segments.patch nilfs2-inode-operations.patch nilfs2-inode-operations-fix.patch nilfs2-file-operations.patch nilfs2-directory-entry-operations.patch nilfs2-pathname-operations.patch nilfs2-pathname-operations-fix.patch nilfs2-operations-for-the_nilfs-core-object.patch nilfs2-super-block-operations.patch nilfs2-super-block-operations-fix.patch nilfs2-segment-buffer.patch nilfs2-segment-buffer-fix.patch nilfs2-segment-constructor.patch nilfs2-segment-constructor-insert-checks-and-hole-block-allocation-in-page_mkwrite.patch nilfs2-fix-miss-sync-issue-for-do_sync_mapping_range.patch nilfs2-fix-miss-sync-issue-for-do_sync_mapping_range-fix.patch nilfs2-recovery-functions.patch nilfs2-another-dat-for-garbage-collection.patch nilfs2-block-cache-for-garbage-collection.patch nilfs2-ioctl-operations.patch nilfs2-update-makefile-and-kconfig.patch nilfs2-fix-problems-of-memory-allocation-in-ioctl.patch nilfs2-cleanup-nilfs_clear_inode.patch nilfs2-avoid-double-error-caused-by-nilfs_transaction_end.patch nilfs2-insert-explanations-in-gcinode-file.patch nilfs2-add-maintainer.patch nilfs2-fix-gc-failure-on-volumes-keeping-numerous-snapshots.patch nilfs2-clean-up-indirect-function-calling-conventions.patch nilfs2-fix-buggy-behavior-seen-in-enumerating-checkpoints.patch nilfs2-remove-timedwait-ioctl-command.patch nilfs2-use-fixed-sized-types-for-ioctl-structures.patch nilfs2-remove-compat-ioctl-code.patch nilfs2-use-unlocked_ioctl.patch nilfs2-extend-nilfs_sustat-ioctl-struct.patch nilfs2-replace-bug_on-and-bug-calls-triggerable-from-ioctl.patch nilfs2-super-block-operations-fix-endian-bug.patch nilfs2-clean-up-sketch-file.patch nilfs2-mark-minor-flag-for-checkpoint-created-by-internal-operation.patch nilfs2-simplify-handling-of-active-state-of-segments.patch nilfs2-introduce-secondary-super-block.patch nilfs2-introduce-secondary-super-block-fix.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