[GIT PULL] Single misc fix for 2.6.37-rc1

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Oct 22 2010 - 06:47:15 EST


Hi Linus,

A recently discovered problem in fs/pipe.c can cause us to
lose the error returned from buf-ops->confirm().

Please pull.

git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-2.6.37/misc

Nicolas Kaiser (1):
pipe: fix failure to return error code on ->confirm()

fs/pipe.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 279eef9..37eb1eb 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ pipe_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *_iov,
error = ops->confirm(pipe, buf);
if (error) {
if (!ret)
- error = ret;
+ ret = error;
break;
}


--
Jens Axboe

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