This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm flakey: return -EINVAL on interval bounds error in flakey_ctr() to the 4.4-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: dm-flakey-return-einval-on-interval-bounds-error-in-flakey_ctr.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bff7e067ee518f9ed7e1cbc63e4c9e01670d0b71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:09:27 +0000 Subject: dm flakey: return -EINVAL on interval bounds error in flakey_ctr() From: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@xxxxxxxxx> commit bff7e067ee518f9ed7e1cbc63e4c9e01670d0b71 upstream. Fix to return error code -EINVAL instead of 0, as is done elsewhere in this function. Fixes: e80d1c805a3b ("dm: do not override error code returned from dm_get_device()") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-flakey.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/dm-flakey.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-flakey.c @@ -200,11 +200,13 @@ static int flakey_ctr(struct dm_target * if (!(fc->up_interval + fc->down_interval)) { ti->error = "Total (up + down) interval is zero"; + r = -EINVAL; goto bad; } if (fc->up_interval + fc->down_interval < fc->up_interval) { ti->error = "Interval overflow"; + r = -EINVAL; goto bad; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from weiyj.lk@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/dm-flakey-return-einval-on-interval-bounds-error-in-flakey_ctr.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