FAILED: patch "[PATCH] btrfs: don't rewrite ret from inode_permission" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-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>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 0185c2292c600993199bc6b1f342ad47a9e8c678
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025122956-output-cornmeal-7c59@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 0185c2292c600993199bc6b1f342ad47a9e8c678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:08:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: don't rewrite ret from inode_permission

In our user safe ino resolve ioctl we'll just turn any ret into -EACCES
from inode_permission().  This is redundant, and could potentially be
wrong if we had an ENOMEM in the security layer or some such other
error, so simply return the actual return value.

Note: The patch was taken from v5 of fscrypt patchset
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/cover.1706116485.git.josef@toxicpanda.com/)
which was handled over time by various people: Omar Sandoval, Sweet Tea
Dorminy, Josef Bacik.

Fixes: 23d0b79dfaed ("btrfs: Add unprivileged version of ino_lookup ioctl")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vacek <neelx@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ add note ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 59cef7e376a0..a10b60439718 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -1910,10 +1910,8 @@ static int btrfs_search_path_in_tree_user(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 			ret = inode_permission(idmap, &temp_inode->vfs_inode,
 					       MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC);
 			iput(&temp_inode->vfs_inode);
-			if (ret) {
-				ret = -EACCES;
+			if (ret)
 				goto out_put;
-			}
 
 			if (key.offset == upper_limit)
 				break;