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

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 11:35:23AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 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

{sigh}  I even read that and for some reason thought it said 3.14...

jet lag sucks, sorry for the noise.

greg k-h