This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix error return from ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents() to the 3.14-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-error-return-from-ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ce37c42919608e96ade3748fe23c3062a0a966c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:52:39 -0500 Subject: ext4: fix error return from ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents() From: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> commit ce37c42919608e96ade3748fe23c3062a0a966c5 upstream. Commit 3779473246 breaks the return of error codes from ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents() in ext4_ext_map_blocks(). A portion of the patch assigns that function's signed integer return value to an unsigned int. Consequently, negatively valued error codes are lost and can be treated as a bogus allocated block count. Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4128,7 +4128,7 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle struct ext4_extent newex, *ex, *ex2; struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb); ext4_fsblk_t newblock = 0; - int free_on_err = 0, err = 0, depth; + int free_on_err = 0, err = 0, depth, ret; unsigned int allocated = 0, offset = 0; unsigned int allocated_clusters = 0; struct ext4_allocation_request ar; @@ -4189,9 +4189,13 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle if (!ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex)) goto out; - allocated = ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents( + ret = ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents( handle, inode, map, path, flags, allocated, newblock); + if (ret < 0) + err = ret; + else + allocated = ret; goto out3; } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/ext4-fix-partial-cluster-handling-for-bigalloc-file-systems.patch queue-3.14/ext4-fix-premature-freeing-of-partial-clusters-split-across-leaf-blocks.patch queue-3.14/ext4-fix-error-return-from-ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents.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