Patch "ubifs: Fix regression in ubifs_readdir()" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ubifs: Fix regression in ubifs_readdir()

to the 4.8-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:
     ubifs-fix-regression-in-ubifs_readdir.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a00052a296e54205cf238c75bd98d17d5d02a6db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:49:03 +0200
Subject: ubifs: Fix regression in ubifs_readdir()

From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

commit a00052a296e54205cf238c75bd98d17d5d02a6db upstream.

Commit c83ed4c9dbb35 ("ubifs: Abort readdir upon error") broke
overlayfs support because the fix exposed an internal error
code to VFS.

Reported-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Tested-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Reported-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
Fixes: c83ed4c9dbb35 ("ubifs: Abort readdir upon error")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ubifs/dir.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
@@ -454,6 +454,14 @@ out:
 
 	if (err != -ENOENT)
 		ubifs_err(c, "cannot find next direntry, error %d", err);
+	else
+		/*
+		 * -ENOENT is a non-fatal error in this context, the TNC uses
+		 * it to indicate that the cursor moved past the current directory
+		 * and readdir() has to stop.
+		 */
+		err = 0;
+
 
 	/* 2 is a special value indicating that there are no more direntries */
 	ctx->pos = 2;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from richard@nod.at are

queue-4.8/ubifs-abort-readdir-upon-error.patch
queue-4.8/ubifs-fix-regression-in-ubifs_readdir.patch