This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: fix missing error return in btrfs_drop_snapshot to the 4.9-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: btrfs-fix-missing-error-return-in-btrfs_drop_snapshot.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e19182c0fff451e3744c1107d98f072e7ca377a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:11:45 -0500 Subject: btrfs: fix missing error return in btrfs_drop_snapshot From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> commit e19182c0fff451e3744c1107d98f072e7ca377a0 upstream. If btrfs_del_root fails in btrfs_drop_snapshot, we'll pick up the error but then return 0 anyway due to mixing err and ret. Fixes: 79787eaab4612 ("btrfs: replace many BUG_ONs with proper error handling") Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c @@ -9362,6 +9362,7 @@ int btrfs_drop_snapshot(struct btrfs_roo ret = btrfs_del_root(trans, tree_root, &root->root_key); if (ret) { btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret); + err = ret; goto out_end_trans; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffm@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/btrfs-fix-missing-error-return-in-btrfs_drop_snapshot.patch