linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Null Pointer when make_indexed

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Date:	Mon, 9 May 2011 19:20:39 +0800
From:	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Null Pointer when make_indexed_dir returns -ENOSPC

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:
>> On Sat 07-05-11 16:54:27, Allison Henderson wrote:
>>> Fix for a null pointer bug found while running punch hole tests
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@...ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> :100644 100644 3c7a06e... 3302a6c... M        fs/ext4/namei.c
>>>  fs/ext4/namei.c |    3 ++-
>>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
>>> index 3c7a06e..3302a6c 100644
>>> --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
>>> +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
>>> @@ -1422,7 +1422,8 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
>>>                */
>>>               ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
>>>               ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, frame->bh);
>>> -             ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, bh);
>>> +             if (bh)
>>> +                     ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, bh);
>>  I'm puzzled - bh here is bh2 from the beginning of the function and we
>> check it for being NULL after we ext4_append() it. So how can this happen?
> do_split() encounters a journal error and set bh to NULL before returning.
Sorry, it does not make sense.

>
>>
>>                                                                        Honza
>>>               dx_release(frames);
>>>               return retval;
>>>       }
>>> --
>>> 1.7.1
>>>
>> --
>> Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>> SUSE Labs, CR
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>
>
>
> --
> Best Wishes
> Yongqiang Yang
>



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