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Patch "vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
vfs-show_vfsstat-do-not-ignore-errors-from-show_devname-method.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 5f8d498d4364f544fee17125787a47553db02afa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:10:54 +0000
Subject: vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method

From: Dmitry V. Levin <[email protected]>

commit 5f8d498d4364f544fee17125787a47553db02afa upstream.

Explicitly check show_devname method return code and bail out in case of an error. This fixes regression introduced by commit 9d4d65748a5c.

---
 fs/proc_namespace.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
fs/proc_namespace.c +2 -0
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ static int show_vfsstat(struct seq_file
 	if (sb->s_op->show_devname) {
 		seq_puts(m, "device ");
 		err = sb->s_op->show_devname(m, mnt_path.dentry);
+		if (err)
+			goto out;
 	} else {
 		if (r->mnt_devname) {
 			seq_puts(m, "device ");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/vfs-show_vfsstat-do-not-ignore-errors-from-show_devname-method.patch