[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt18.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:10:54 +0000
Subject: vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method

commit 5f8d498d4364f544fee17125787a47553db02afa upstream.

Explicitly check show_devname method return code and bail out in case
of an error.  This fixes regression introduced by commit 9d4d65748a5c.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/proc_namespace.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/proc_namespace.c b/fs/proc_namespace.c
index 0f96f71..a29f17a 100644
--- a/fs/proc_namespace.c
+++ b/fs/proc_namespace.c
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ static int show_vfsstat(struct seq_file *m, struct vfsmount *mnt)
 	if (sb->s_op->show_devname) {
 		seq_puts(m, "device ");
 		err = sb->s_op->show_devname(m, mnt_path.dentry);
+		if (err)
+			goto out;
 	} else {
 		if (r->mnt_devname) {
 			seq_puts(m, "device ");
--
2.7.4