This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method to the 4.5-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: vfs-show_vfsstat-do-not-ignore-errors-from-show_devname-method.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5f8d498d4364f544fee17125787a47553db02afa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:10:54 +0000 Subject: vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method From: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 5f8d498d4364f544fee17125787a47553db02afa upstream. Explicitly check show_devname method return code and bail out in case of an error. This fixes regression introduced by commit 9d4d65748a5c. Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc_namespace.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/proc_namespace.c +++ b/fs/proc_namespace.c @@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ static int show_vfsstat(struct seq_file if (sb->s_op->show_devname) { seq_puts(m, "device "); err = sb->s_op->show_devname(m, mnt_path.dentry); + if (err) + goto out; } else { if (r->mnt_devname) { seq_puts(m, "device "); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/vfs-show_vfsstat-do-not-ignore-errors-from-show_devname-method.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