This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
eCryptfs: Unlock page in write_begin error path
to the 2.6.38-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:
ecryptfs-unlock-page-in-write_begin-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 50f198ae16ac66508d4b8d5a40967a8507ad19ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:49:13 -0600
Subject: eCryptfs: Unlock page in write_begin error path
From: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
commit 50f198ae16ac66508d4b8d5a40967a8507ad19ee upstream.
Unlock the page in error path of ecryptfs_write_begin(). This may
happen, for example, if decryption fails while bring the page
up-to-date.
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/ecryptfs/mmap.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/mmap.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/mmap.c
@@ -374,6 +374,11 @@ static int ecryptfs_write_begin(struct f
&& (pos != 0))
zero_user(page, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
out:
+ if (unlikely(rc)) {
+ unlock_page(page);
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ *pagep = NULL;
+ }
return rc;
}
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