From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fix the regression from "direct-io: Fix negative return from" failed to apply to 3.14-stable tree
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:18:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453915082145211@kroah.com> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 2d4594acbf6d8f75a27f3578476b6a27d8b13ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 12:22:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix the regression from "direct-io: Fix negative return from
dio read beyond eof"
Sure, it's better to bail out of past-the-eof read and return 0 than return
a bogus negative value on such. Only we'd better make sure we are bailing out
with 0 and not -ENOMEM...
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index 1c75a3a07f8f..602e8441bc0f 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -1175,6 +1175,7 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
if (dio->flags & DIO_LOCKING)
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
kmem_cache_free(dio_cache, dio);
+ retval = 0;
goto out;
}
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