Patch "btrfs: fix missing error return in btrfs_drop_snapshot" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    btrfs: fix missing error return in btrfs_drop_snapshot

to the 4.9-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:
     btrfs-fix-missing-error-return-in-btrfs_drop_snapshot.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 e19182c0fff451e3744c1107d98f072e7ca377a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:11:45 -0500
Subject: btrfs: fix missing error return in btrfs_drop_snapshot

From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>

commit e19182c0fff451e3744c1107d98f072e7ca377a0 upstream.

If btrfs_del_root fails in btrfs_drop_snapshot, we'll pick up the
error but then return 0 anyway due to mixing err and ret.

Fixes: 79787eaab4612 ("btrfs: replace many BUG_ONs with proper error handling")
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -9362,6 +9362,7 @@ int btrfs_drop_snapshot(struct btrfs_roo
 	ret = btrfs_del_root(trans, tree_root, &root->root_key);
 	if (ret) {
 		btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret);
+		err = ret;
 		goto out_end_trans;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffm@suse.com are

queue-4.9/btrfs-fix-missing-error-return-in-btrfs_drop_snapshot.patch