This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nilfs2: Remove check for PageError
to the 4.19-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:
nilfs2-remove-check-for-pageerror.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit c8c60b9de2c348b4c6e83ead7c914fb596661e46
Author: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 17 18:12:25 2022 -0400
nilfs2: Remove check for PageError
[ Upstream commit 79ea65563ad8aaab309d61eeb4d5019dd6cf5fa0 ]
If read_mapping_page() encounters an error, it returns an errno, not a
page with PageError set, so this test is not needed.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 7373a51e7998 ("nilfs2: fix nilfs_empty_dir() misjudgment and long loop on I/O errors")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/dir.c b/fs/nilfs2/dir.c
index eb7de9e2a384e..24cfe9db66e02 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/dir.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static struct page *nilfs_get_page(struct inode *dir, unsigned long n)
if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
kmap(page);
if (unlikely(!PageChecked(page))) {
- if (PageError(page) || !nilfs_check_page(page))
+ if (!nilfs_check_page(page))
goto fail;
}
}
