This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
btrfs: fix missing error return in btrfs_drop_snapshot
to the 4.14-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: btrfs-fix-missing-error-return-in-btrfs_drop_snapshot.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 e19182c0fff451e3744c1107d98f072e7ca377a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:11:45 -0500 Subject: btrfs: fix missing error return in btrfs_drop_snapshot
From: Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com
commit e19182c0fff451e3744c1107d98f072e7ca377a0 upstream.
If btrfs_del_root fails in btrfs_drop_snapshot, we'll pick up the error but then return 0 anyway due to mixing err and ret.
Fixes: 79787eaab4612 ("btrfs: replace many BUG_ONs with proper error handling") Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com Reviewed-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c @@ -9283,6 +9283,7 @@ int btrfs_drop_snapshot(struct btrfs_roo ret = btrfs_del_root(trans, fs_info, &root->root_key); if (ret) { btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret); + err = ret; goto out_end_trans; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffm@suse.com are
queue-4.14/btrfs-fix-missing-error-return-in-btrfs_drop_snapshot.patch queue-4.14/btrfs-handle-errors-while-updating-refcounts-in-update_ref_for_cow.patch