linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.14 10/64] xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jun 2015 14:15:51 +0100
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.14 10/64] xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 08:42:38PM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 

I guess you forgot to drop this patch.

Cheers,
--
Luís

> ------------------
> 
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> 
> commit cddc116228cb9d51d3224d23ba3e61fbbc3ec3d2 upstream.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_file.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
> @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ xfs_iozero(
>  		status = 0;
>  	} while (count);
>  
> -	return (-status);
> +	return status;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> 
> 
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