This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bcache: Correct return value for sysfs attach errors
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:
bcache-correct-return-value-for-sysfs-attach-errors.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 77fa100f27475d08a569b9d51c17722130f089e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Asleson <tasleson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:25:57 +0800
Subject: bcache: Correct return value for sysfs attach errors
From: Tony Asleson <tasleson@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 77fa100f27475d08a569b9d51c17722130f089e7 upstream.
If you encounter any errors in bch_cached_dev_attach it will return
a negative error code. The variable 'v' which stores the result is
unsigned, thus user space sees a very large value returned for bytes
written which can cause incorrect user space behavior. Utilize 1
signed variable to use throughout the function to preserve error return
capability.
Signed-off-by: Tony Asleson <tasleson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ STORE(__cached_dev)
{
struct cached_dev *dc = container_of(kobj, struct cached_dev,
disk.kobj);
- unsigned v = size;
+ ssize_t v = size;
struct cache_set *c;
struct kobj_uevent_env *env;
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ STORE(__cached_dev)
bch_cached_dev_run(dc);
if (attr == &sysfs_cache_mode) {
- ssize_t v = bch_read_string_list(buf, bch_cache_modes + 1);
+ v = bch_read_string_list(buf, bch_cache_modes + 1);
if (v < 0)
return v;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tasleson@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/bcache-correct-return-value-for-sysfs-attach-errors.patch