This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sg: fix read() error reporting to the 3.19-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: sg-fix-read-error-reporting.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3b524a683af8991b4eab4182b947c65f0ce1421b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:32:06 -0500 Subject: sg: fix read() error reporting From: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3b524a683af8991b4eab4182b947c65f0ce1421b upstream. Fix SCSI generic read() incorrectly returning success after detecting an error. Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static ssize_t sg_new_read(Sg_fd * sfp, char __user *buf, size_t count, Sg_request * srp) { sg_io_hdr_t *hp = &srp->header; - int err = 0; + int err = 0, err2; int len; if (count < SZ_SG_IO_HDR) { @@ -575,8 +575,8 @@ sg_new_read(Sg_fd * sfp, char __user *bu goto err_out; } err_out: - err = sg_finish_rem_req(srp); - return (0 == err) ? count : err; + err2 = sg_finish_rem_req(srp); + return err ? : err2 ? : count; } static ssize_t Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.19/sg-fix-read-error-reporting.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