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* [PATCH] xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno
@ 2015-04-16 12:38 Dave Chinner
  2015-04-16 17:32 ` Brian Foster
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Chinner @ 2015-04-16 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xfs

From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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
error sign conversion"), and should go back to stable kernels.

Thanks to Brian Foster for noticing it.

cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17, 3.18, 3.19, 4.0
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index ec0c9c2..8383df0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ xfs_iozero(
 		status = 0;
 	} while (count);
 
-	return (-status);
+	return status;
 }
 
 int
-- 
2.0.0

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* Re: [PATCH] xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno
  2015-04-16 12:38 [PATCH] xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno Dave Chinner
@ 2015-04-16 17:32 ` Brian Foster
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Brian Foster @ 2015-04-16 17:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Chinner; +Cc: xfs

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:38:41PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> 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
> error sign conversion"), and should go back to stable kernels.
> 
> Thanks to Brian Foster for noticing it.
> 
> cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17, 3.18, 3.19, 4.0
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

>  fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> index ec0c9c2..8383df0 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ xfs_iozero(
>  		status = 0;
>  	} while (count);
>  
> -	return (-status);
> +	return status;
>  }
>  
>  int
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 
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