linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't free an error pointer

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Date:   Mon, 3 Jul 2017 21:37:57 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't free an error pointer

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:56:53AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "goto out;" calls brelse(bh); which will oops on this this path where
> "bh" is an error pointer.
> 
> Fixes: 2851a40a5d71 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> ---
> Oops.  I wrote a bug report and a patch for this...  Probably we only
> need the patch.

Thanks, I've folded your this to the xattr-in-inode patch and added a
credit for the bugfix to the commit log.

					- Ted