This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled GFS2: return error if malloc failed in gfs2_rs_alloc() 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: gfs2-return-error-if-malloc-failed-in-gfs2_rs_alloc.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 441362d06be349430d06e37286adce4b90e6ce96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:01:37 +0800 Subject: GFS2: return error if malloc failed in gfs2_rs_alloc() From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 441362d06be349430d06e37286adce4b90e6ce96 upstream. The error code in gfs2_rs_alloc() is set to ENOMEM when error but never be used, instead, gfs2_rs_alloc() always return 0. Fix to return 'error'. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ int gfs2_rs_alloc(struct gfs2_inode *ip) RB_CLEAR_NODE(&ip->i_res->rs_node); out: up_write(&ip->i_rw_mutex); - return 0; + return error; } static void dump_rs(struct seq_file *seq, const struct gfs2_blkreserv *rs) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/gfs2-return-error-if-malloc-failed-in-gfs2_rs_alloc.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