[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ext4: release buffer in failed path in dx_probe()" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ext4: release buffer in failed path in dx_probe()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 0d7ac75e262805cd97a53124c889d1681cd38397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guo Chao <yan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 23:38:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: release buffer in failed path in dx_probe()

commit 0ecaef0644973e9006fdbc6974301047aaff9bc6 upstream.

If checksum fails, we should also release the buffer
read from previous iteration.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>-
--
 fs/ext4/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index ad6767e..20c13eb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ dx_probe(const struct qstr *d_name, struct inode *dir,
 			ext4_warning(dir->i_sb, "Node failed checksum");
 			brelse(bh);
 			*err = ERR_BAD_DX_DIR;
-			goto fail;
+			goto fail2;
 		}
 		set_buffer_verified(bh);

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1.7.9.5