This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfs: fix check for fallocate on active swapfile
to the 3.15-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-fix-check-for-fallocate-on-active-swapfile.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 6d2b6170c8914c6c69256b687651fb16d7ec3e18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:45:08 -0500
Subject: vfs: fix check for fallocate on active swapfile
From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
commit 6d2b6170c8914c6c69256b687651fb16d7ec3e18 upstream.
Fix the broken check for calling sys_fallocate() on an active swapfile,
introduced by commit 0790b31b69374ddadefe ("fs: disallow all fallocate
operation on active swapfile").
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/open.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -263,11 +263,10 @@ int do_fallocate(struct file *file, int
return -EPERM;
/*
- * We can not allow to do any fallocate operation on an active
- * swapfile
+ * We cannot allow any fallocate operation on an active swapfile
*/
if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
- ret = -ETXTBSY;
+ return -ETXTBSY;
/*
* Revalidate the write permissions, in case security policy has
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.15/vfs-fix-check-for-fallocate-on-active-swapfile.patch
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