This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rbd: Fix error recovery in rbd_obj_read_sync() to the 3.17-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: rbd-fix-error-recovery-in-rbd_obj_read_sync.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a8d4205623ae965e36c68629db306ca0695a2771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:17:24 +0200 Subject: rbd: Fix error recovery in rbd_obj_read_sync() From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit a8d4205623ae965e36c68629db306ca0695a2771 upstream. When we fail to allocate page vector in rbd_obj_read_sync() we just basically ignore the problem and continue which will result in an oops later. Fix the problem by returning proper error. CC: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Coverity-id: 1226882 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/rbd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c @@ -3382,7 +3382,7 @@ static int rbd_obj_read_sync(struct rbd_ page_count = (u32) calc_pages_for(offset, length); pages = ceph_alloc_page_vector(page_count, GFP_KERNEL); if (IS_ERR(pages)) - ret = PTR_ERR(pages); + return PTR_ERR(pages); ret = -ENOMEM; obj_request = rbd_obj_request_create(object_name, offset, length, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-3.17/ext3-don-t-check-quota-format-when-there-are-no-quota-files.patch queue-3.17/evm-check-xattr-value-length-and-type-in-evm_inode_setxattr.patch queue-3.17/scsi-fix-error-handling-in-scsi_ioctl_send_command.patch queue-3.17/ext4-don-t-check-quota-format-when-there-are-no-quota-files.patch queue-3.17/lib-bitmap.c-fix-undefined-shift-in-__bitmap_shift_-left-right.patch queue-3.17/ext4-fix-oops-when-loading-block-bitmap-failed.patch queue-3.17/vfs-fix-data-corruption-when-blocksize-pagesize-for-mmaped-data.patch queue-3.17/ext4-fix-mmap-data-corruption-when-blocksize-pagesize.patch queue-3.17/ext4-don-t-orphan-or-truncate-the-boot-loader-inode.patch queue-3.17/mm-remove-false-warn_on-from-pagecache_isize_extended.patch queue-3.17/rbd-fix-error-recovery-in-rbd_obj_read_sync.patch queue-3.17/ext4-fix-overflow-when-updating-superblock-backups-after-resize.patch queue-3.17/ext4-grab-missed-write_count-for-ext4_ioc_swap_boot.patch queue-3.17/ima-check-xattr-value-length-and-type-in-the-ima_inode_setxattr.patch queue-3.17/quota-properly-return-errors-from-dquot_writeback_dquots.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