This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ceph: do_sync is never initialized 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: ceph-do_sync-is-never-initialized.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 021b77bee210843bed1ea91b5cad58235ff9c8e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:33:34 +0300 Subject: ceph: do_sync is never initialized From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 021b77bee210843bed1ea91b5cad58235ff9c8e5 upstream. Probably this code was syncing a lot more often then intended because the do_sync variable wasn't set to zero. Fixes: c62988ec0910 ('ceph: avoid meaningless calling ceph_caps_revoking if sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL.') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/addr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ceph/addr.c +++ b/fs/ceph/addr.c @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ static int ceph_writepages_start(struct int rc = 0; unsigned wsize = 1 << inode->i_blkbits; struct ceph_osd_request *req = NULL; - int do_sync; + int do_sync = 0; u64 truncate_size, snap_size; u32 truncate_seq; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/alsa-hda-using-uninitialized-data.patch queue-3.14/hid-roccat-potential-out-of-bounds-in-pyra_sysfs_write_settings.patch queue-3.14/ceph-do_sync-is-never-initialized.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