This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled gfs2: Fix gfs2_file_buffered_write endless loop workaround to the 5.15-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: gfs2-fix-gfs2_file_buffered_write-endless-loop-worka.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 31d722b87ad7f966a92c11fac9f013b997031f82 Author: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 17 14:47:24 2022 +0100 gfs2: Fix gfs2_file_buffered_write endless loop workaround [ Upstream commit 46f3e0421ccb5474b5c006b0089b9dfd42534bb6 ] Since commit 554c577cee95b, gfs2_file_buffered_write() can accidentally return a truncated iov_iter, which might confuse callers. Fix that. Fixes: 554c577cee95b ("gfs2: Prevent endless loops in gfs2_file_buffered_write") Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/file.c b/fs/gfs2/file.c index 60390f9dc31f..e93185d804e0 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/file.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/file.c @@ -1086,6 +1086,7 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, gfs2_holder_uninit(gh); if (statfs_gh) kfree(statfs_gh); + from->count = orig_count - read; return read ? read : ret; }