[[ this was already added to 3.4-stable, I am sending it to the stable mailing list for 3.2, 3.0 and others stable kernels ]] This is backport of upstream commit bbd465df73f0d8ba41b8a0732766a243d0f5b356, modified for stable kernels 2.6.39 - 3.7. This patch fixes warnings due to missing lock on write error path. WARNING: at fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h:353 hpfs_truncate+0x75/0x80 [hpfs]() Hardware name: empty Pid: 26563, comm: dd Tainted: P O 3.9.4 #12 Call Trace: hpfs_truncate+0x75/0x80 [hpfs] hpfs_write_begin+0x84/0x90 [hpfs] _hpfs_bmap+0x10/0x10 [hpfs] generic_file_buffered_write+0x121/0x2c0 __generic_file_aio_write+0x1c7/0x3f0 generic_file_aio_write+0x7c/0x100 do_sync_write+0x98/0xd0 hpfs_file_write+0xd/0x50 [hpfs] vfs_write+0xa2/0x160 sys_write+0x51/0xa0 page_fault+0x22/0x30 system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hpfs/file.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-3.4.66/fs/hpfs/file.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.4.66.orig/fs/hpfs/file.c 2013-11-30 01:16:17.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-3.4.66/fs/hpfs/file.c 2013-11-30 01:19:16.000000000 +0100 @@ -116,9 +116,12 @@ static int hpfs_write_begin(struct file hpfs_get_block, &hpfs_i(mapping->host)->mmu_private); if (unlikely(ret)) { - loff_t isize = mapping->host->i_size; + loff_t isize; + hpfs_lock(mapping->host->i_sb); + isize = mapping->host->i_size; if (pos + len > isize) vmtruncate(mapping->host, isize); + hpfs_unlock(mapping->host->i_sb); } return ret; -- 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