This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
autofs: fix careless error in recent commit
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: autofs-fix-careless-error-in-recent-commit.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 302ec300ef8a545a7fc7f667e5fd743b091c2eeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown neilb@suse.com Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:32:38 -0800 Subject: autofs: fix careless error in recent commit
From: NeilBrown neilb@suse.com
commit 302ec300ef8a545a7fc7f667e5fd743b091c2eeb upstream.
Commit ecc0c469f277 ("autofs: don't fail mount for transient error") was meant to replace an 'if' with a 'switch', but instead added the 'switch' leaving the case in place.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zi6wstmw.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name Fixes: ecc0c469f277 ("autofs: don't fail mount for transient error") Reported-by: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: NeilBrown neilb@suse.com Cc: Ian Kent raven@themaw.net Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c +++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c @@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ static void autofs4_notify_daemon(struct
mutex_unlock(&sbi->wq_mutex);
- if (autofs4_write(sbi, pipe, &pkt, pktsz)) switch (ret = autofs4_write(sbi, pipe, &pkt, pktsz)) { case 0: break;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@suse.com are
queue-4.9/autofs-fix-careless-error-in-recent-commit.patch