This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix retry handling in ext4_ext_truncate() to the 3.10-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-fix-retry-handling-in-ext4_ext_truncate.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 94eec0fc3520c759831763d866421b4d60b599b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:12:56 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix retry handling in ext4_ext_truncate() From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 94eec0fc3520c759831763d866421b4d60b599b4 upstream. We tested for ENOMEM instead of -ENOMEM. Oops. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4389,7 +4389,7 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(handle_t *handle, retry: err = ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, last_block, EXT_MAX_BLOCKS - last_block); - if (err == ENOMEM) { + if (err == -ENOMEM) { cond_resched(); congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50); goto retry; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ext4-fix-retry-handling-in-ext4_ext_truncate.patch queue-3.10/ext4-make-sure-group-number-is-bumped-after-a-inode-allocation-race.patch queue-3.10/ext4-destroy-ext4_es_cachep-on-module-unload.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