[merged mm-nonmm-stable] fat-restore-original-value-when-fat_ent_write-failed.patch removed from -mm tree
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:04:55 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.mm-commits,org.kernel.vger.stable |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The quilt patch titled
Subject: fat: restore original value when fat_ent_write failed
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fat-restore-original-value-when-fat_ent_write-failed.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Yemu Lu <[email protected]>
Subject: fat: restore original value when fat_ent_write failed
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 16:56:49 +0800
fat_ent_write() may have committed the new link to the primary FAT but
then failed on the mirror copy, leaving the chain pointing to new_dclus
even though the caller will free it. Restore the original value to keep
the chain consistent.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Yemu Lu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
fs/fat/misc.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/fat/misc.c~fat-restore-original-value-when-fat_ent_write-failed
+++ a/fs/fat/misc.c
@@ -133,7 +133,11 @@ int fat_chain_add(struct inode *inode, i
ret = fat_ent_read(inode, &fatent, last);
if (ret >= 0) {
int wait = inode_needs_sync(inode);
+ int old = ret;
+
ret = fat_ent_write(inode, &fatent, new_dclus, wait);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ fat_ent_write(inode, &fatent, old, wait);
fatent_brelse(&fatent);
}
if (ret < 0)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are