Re: Patch "xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:12:55AM +0900, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno
> 
> 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:
>      xfs-xfs_iozero-can-return-positive-errno.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,

No, it shouldn't be applied to 3.14, because:

> From cddc116228cb9d51d3224d23ba3e61fbbc3ec3d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 07:40:32 +1000
> Subject: xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno
> 
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> commit cddc116228cb9d51d3224d23ba3e61fbbc3ec3d2 upstream.
> 
> It was missed when we converted everything in XFs to use negative error
> numbers, so fix it now. Bug introduced in 3.17 by commit 2451337 ("xfs: global
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The upstream commit also had an indication of what stable kernels it
needed to be applied to. i.e:

 cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17, 3.18, 3.19, 4.0


Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com