This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ubifs: Fix error return code in alloc_wbufs() to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ubifs-fix-error-return-code-in-alloc_wbufs.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 859f8cb096655eed322177d96066b7cb532274d4 Author: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Nov 15 16:23:43 2020 +0800 ubifs: Fix error return code in alloc_wbufs() [ Upstream commit 42119dbe571eb419dae99b81dd20fa42f47464e1 ] Fix to return PTR_ERR() error code from the error handling case instead fo 0 in function alloc_wbufs(), as done elsewhere in this function. Fixes: 6a98bc4614de ("ubifs: Add authentication nodes to journal") Signed-off-by: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c index cb3acfb7dd1fc..dacbb999ae34d 100644 --- a/fs/ubifs/super.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c @@ -838,8 +838,10 @@ static int alloc_wbufs(struct ubifs_info *c) c->jheads[i].wbuf.jhead = i; c->jheads[i].grouped = 1; c->jheads[i].log_hash = ubifs_hash_get_desc(c); - if (IS_ERR(c->jheads[i].log_hash)) + if (IS_ERR(c->jheads[i].log_hash)) { + err = PTR_ERR(c->jheads[i].log_hash); goto out; + } } /*