The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 2d4594acbf6d8f75a27f3578476b6a27d8b13ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 12:22:47 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] fix the regression from "direct-io: Fix negative return from dio read beyond eof" Sure, it's better to bail out of past-the-eof read and return 0 than return a bogus negative value on such. Only we'd better make sure we are bailing out with 0 and not -ENOMEM... Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c index 1c75a3a07f8f..602e8441bc0f 100644 --- a/fs/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/direct-io.c @@ -1175,6 +1175,7 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, if (dio->flags & DIO_LOCKING) mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); kmem_cache_free(dio_cache, dio); + retval = 0; goto out; } -- 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