Re: [PATCH 5.8 214/464] iomap: Make sure iomap_end is called after iomap_begin

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 09:56:02PM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> Gerg,
>
> Am Mo., 17. Aug. 2020 um 21:39 Uhr schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 856473cd5d17dbbf3055710857c67a4af6d9fcc0 ]
> >
> > Make sure iomap_end is always called when iomap_begin succeeds.
> >
> > Without this fix, iomap_end won't be called when a filesystem's
> > iomap_begin operation returns an invalid mapping, bypassing any
> > unlocking done in iomap_end.  With this fix, the unlocking will still
> > happen.
> >
> > This bug was found by Bob Peterson during code review.  It's unlikely
> > that such iomap_begin bugs will survive to affect users, so backporting
> > this fix seems unnecessary.
>
> this doesn't need to be backported.

Now dropped, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha