linux-ext4 - Re: typo in jbd2_journal_begin_ordered

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Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:33:51 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:	sct@...hat.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: typo in jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate()

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:23:03 +0300 (EAT) Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> wrote:

> This is jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() from fs/jbd2/transaction.c.
> 
> I think the "&&" is supposed to be an "||" on line 2144.  Just knowing 
> that inode->i_transaction is NULL should be enough, otherwise we would 
> immediately dereference a null on line 2146.
> 
>    2144          if (!inode->i_transaction && !inode->i_next_transaction)
>    2145                  goto out;
>    2146          journal = inode->i_transaction->t_journal;
> 

Could be.  Hard to tell from the code, changelog and (non) comments.  Perhaps
it's dead code.

Send a patch, become famous ;)

While you're there, rename local var `inode' to `jinode'.
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