This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix potential error in ext4_do_update_inode to the 4.4-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: ext4-fix-potential-error-in-ext4_do_update_inode.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7d8bd3c76da1d94b85e6c9b7007e20e980bfcfe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shijie Luo <luoshijie1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 01:50:51 -0500 Subject: ext4: fix potential error in ext4_do_update_inode From: Shijie Luo <luoshijie1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7d8bd3c76da1d94b85e6c9b7007e20e980bfcfe6 upstream. If set_large_file = 1 and errors occur in ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(), the error code will be overridden, go to out_brelse to avoid this situation. Signed-off-by: Shijie Luo <luoshijie1@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312065051.36314-1-luoshijie1@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4626,7 +4626,7 @@ static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode); struct buffer_head *bh = iloc->bh; struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; - int err = 0, rc, block; + int err = 0, block; int need_datasync = 0, set_large_file = 0; uid_t i_uid; gid_t i_gid; @@ -4726,9 +4726,9 @@ static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t bh->b_data); BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata"); - rc = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, NULL, bh); - if (!err) - err = rc; + err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, NULL, bh); + if (err) + goto out_brelse; ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEW); if (set_large_file) { BUFFER_TRACE(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh, "get write access"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luoshijie1@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ext4-fix-potential-error-in-ext4_do_update_inode.patch