[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "ext4: fix error return from ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    ext4: fix error return from ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents()

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.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 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 6e8eada32f69ed287ab8f95c1e09e46a3d4d13b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Whitney <enwlinux at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:52:39 -0500
Subject: ext4: fix error return from ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents()

commit ce37c42919608e96ade3748fe23c3062a0a966c5 upstream.

Commit 3779473246 breaks the return of error codes from
ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents() in ext4_ext_map_blocks().  A
portion of the patch assigns that function's signed integer return
value to an unsigned int.  Consequently, negatively valued error codes
are lost and can be treated as a bogus allocated block count.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 9b2d6e6..79ace91 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4055,7 +4055,7 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	struct ext4_extent newex, *ex, *ex2;
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
 	ext4_fsblk_t newblock = 0;
-	int free_on_err = 0, err = 0, depth;
+	int free_on_err = 0, err = 0, depth, ret;
 	unsigned int allocated = 0, offset = 0;
 	unsigned int allocated_clusters = 0;
 	struct ext4_allocation_request ar;
@@ -4116,9 +4116,13 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 			if (!ext4_ext_is_uninitialized(ex))
 				goto out;

-			allocated = ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(
+			ret = ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(
 				handle, inode, map, path, flags,
 				allocated, newblock);
+			if (ret < 0)
+				err = ret;
+			else
+				allocated = ret;
 			goto out3;
 		}
 	}
--
1.9.1