This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
locks: pass correct "before" pointer to locks_unlink_lock in generic_add_lease
to the 3.16-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:
locks-pass-correct-before-pointer-to-locks_unlink_lock-in-generic_add_lease.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e0b760ff71be168d4e623f7c3612e98902ab93e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:58:22 -0400
Subject: locks: pass correct "before" pointer to locks_unlink_lock in generic_add_lease
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit e0b760ff71be168d4e623f7c3612e98902ab93e9 upstream.
The argument to locks_unlink_lock can't be just any pointer to a
pointer. It must be a pointer to the fl_next field in the previous
lock in the list.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/locks.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -1595,7 +1595,7 @@ static int generic_add_lease(struct file
smp_mb();
error = check_conflicting_open(dentry, arg);
if (error)
- locks_unlink_lock(flp);
+ locks_unlink_lock(before);
out:
if (is_deleg)
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/locks-pass-correct-before-pointer-to-locks_unlink_lock-in-generic_add_lease.patch
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