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 5.4-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-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 035eb602fdc1c02f699c890a723e385a4b22e1a6
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 e49bd69dfc1c8..701f15ba61352 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -820,8 +820,10 @@ 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;
+ }
}
/*
