This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: release sysfs kobject when failing to enable quotas on mount to the 3.8-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-release-sysfs-kobject-when-failing-to-enable-quotas-on-mount.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 72ba74508b2857e71d65fc93f0d6b684492fc740 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:24:54 -0500 Subject: ext4: release sysfs kobject when failing to enable quotas on mount From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 72ba74508b2857e71d65fc93f0d6b684492fc740 upstream. In addition, print the error returned from ext4_enable_quotas() Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -4008,7 +4008,7 @@ no_journal: !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) { err = ext4_enable_quotas(sb); if (err) - goto failed_mount7; + goto failed_mount8; } #endif /* CONFIG_QUOTA */ @@ -4035,6 +4035,10 @@ cantfind_ext4: ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem"); goto failed_mount; +#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA +failed_mount8: + kobject_del(&sbi->s_kobj); +#endif failed_mount7: ext4_unregister_li_request(sb); failed_mount6: @@ -5005,9 +5009,9 @@ static int ext4_enable_quotas(struct sup DQUOT_USAGE_ENABLED); if (err) { ext4_warning(sb, - "Failed to enable quota (type=%d) " - "tracking. Please run e2fsck to fix.", - type); + "Failed to enable quota tracking " + "(type=%d, err=%d). Please run " + "e2fsck to fix.", type, err); return err; } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-3.8/ext4-check-bh-in-ext4_read_block_bitmap.patch queue-3.8/quota-autoload-the-quota_v2-module-for-qfmt_vfs_v1-quota-format.patch queue-3.8/ext4-return-enomem-if-sb_getblk-fails.patch queue-3.8/ext4-fix-race-in-ext4_mb_add_n_trim.patch queue-3.8/ext4-fix-possible-use-after-free-with-aio.patch queue-3.8/ext4-fix-free-clusters-calculation-in-bigalloc-filesystem.patch queue-3.8/ext4-fix-xattr-block-allocation-release-with-bigalloc.patch queue-3.8/ext4-release-sysfs-kobject-when-failing-to-enable-quotas-on-mount.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html