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Patch "ext4 crypto: fix some error handling" 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

ext4 crypto: fix some error handling

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:
ext4-crypto-fix-some-error-handling.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 4762cc3fbbd89e5fd316d6e4d3244a8984444f8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 18:13:38 -0400
Subject: ext4 crypto: fix some error handling

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

commit 4762cc3fbbd89e5fd316d6e4d3244a8984444f8d upstream.

We should be testing for -ENOMEM but the minus sign is missing.

Fixes c9af28fdd449 ('ext4 crypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM')
---
 fs/ext4/page-io.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
fs/ext4/page-io.c +1 -1
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_s
 		data_page = ext4_encrypt(inode, page, gfp_flags);
 		if (IS_ERR(data_page)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(data_page);
-			if (ret == ENOMEM && wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
+			if (ret == -ENOMEM && wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
 				if (io->io_bio) {
 					ext4_io_submit(io);
 					congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);

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

queue-4.4/ext4-crypto-fix-some-error-handling.patch