On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 13:00 -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 This doesn't apply to 3.2. If it's needed, please provide a backport. Ben. > 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. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949
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