Re: Please cherry-pick 36de928 and a9cfcd6

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On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 01:00:47PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 04:40:27PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > >     ext4: propagate errors up to ext4_find_entry()'s callers
> > > 
> > > I hate to do this again, but could you hold up this patch until the
> > > next stable release?
> > 
> > Ok, now dropped, please resend it to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx when you
> > want it to go in.
> 
> Hi Greg and other stable kernel maintainers,
> 
> Please cherry-pick the following commits from mainline into your
> stable kernels:
> 
> 36de928 ext4: propagate errors up to ext4_find_entry()'s callers
> a9cfcd6 ext4: avoid trying to kfree an ERR_PTR pointer
> 
> There was a bug accidentally introduced 36de928 which is fixed in
> a9cfcd6, hence my request to Greg that he hold up the first commit.

These only applied to 3.16-stable, so I've applied them there.

thanks,

greg k-h
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