On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 08:49:08PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On 04/21/2015 05:47 PM, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> > btrfs_check_shared() is leaking a return value of '1' from
> > find_parent_nodes(). As a result, callers (in this case, extent_fiemap())
> > are told extents are shared when they are not. This in turn broke fiemap on
> > btrfs for kernels v3.18 and up.
> > 
> > The fix is simple - we just have to clear 'ret' after we are done processing
> > the results of find_parent_nodes().
> > 
> > It wasn't clear to me at first what was happening with return values in
> > btrfs_check_shared() and find_parent_nodes() - thanks to Josef for the help
> > on irc. I added documentation to both functions to make things more clear
> > for the next hacker who might come across them.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Mark, any reason not to tag this for stable?

If you all are ok with the patch then yes please send it to -stable too. It
breaks duperemove on kernels from 3.18 onward:

https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove/issues/55

so I'm understandbly interested in seeing it backported :)

Thanks,
        --Mark

> 
> -chris
> 
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