This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
GFS2: d_splice_alias() can't return error
to the 3.12-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:
gfs2-d_splice_alias-can-t-return-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0d0d110720d7960b77c03c9f2597faaff4b484ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:52:00 +0200
Subject: GFS2: d_splice_alias() can't return error
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
commit 0d0d110720d7960b77c03c9f2597faaff4b484ae upstream.
unless it was given an IS_ERR(inode), which isn't the case here. So clean
up the unnecessary error handling in gfs2_create_inode().
This paves the way for real fixes (hence the stable Cc).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/gfs2/inode.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inod
if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {
d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
error = 0;
- if (file && !IS_ERR(d)) {
+ if (file) {
if (d == NULL)
d = dentry;
if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
@@ -593,8 +593,6 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inod
error = finish_no_open(file, d);
}
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(ghs);
- if (IS_ERR(d))
- return PTR_ERR(d);
return error;
} else if (error != -ENOENT) {
goto fail_gunlock;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/gfs2-fix-dentry-leaks.patch
queue-3.12/gfs2-d_splice_alias-can-t-return-error.patch
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