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

    udf: Mark LVID buffer as uptodate before marking it dirty

to the 3.2-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:
     udf-mark-lvid-buffer-as-uptodate-before-marking-it-dirty.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.

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


>From 853a0c25baf96b028de1654bea1e0c8857eadf3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:53:07 +0100
Subject: udf: Mark LVID buffer as uptodate before marking it dirty

From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>

commit 853a0c25baf96b028de1654bea1e0c8857eadf3d upstream.

When we hit EIO while writing LVID, the buffer uptodate bit is cleared.
This then results in an anoying warning from mark_buffer_dirty() when we
write the buffer again. So just set uptodate flag unconditionally.

Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/udf/super.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/udf/super.c
+++ b/fs/udf/super.c
@@ -1799,6 +1799,12 @@ static void udf_close_lvid(struct super_
                                le16_to_cpu(lvid->descTag.descCRCLength)));
 
        lvid->descTag.tagChecksum = udf_tag_checksum(&lvid->descTag);
+       /*
+        * We set buffer uptodate unconditionally here to avoid spurious
+        * warnings from mark_buffer_dirty() when previous EIO has marked
+        * the buffer as !uptodate
+        */
+       set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
        mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
        sbi->s_lvid_dirty = 0;
        mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_alloc_mutex);


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

queue-3.2/udf-mark-lvid-buffer-as-uptodate-before-marking-it-dirty.patch
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