linux-ext4 - Re: [BUG] NULL pointer dereference with corrupted image

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Message-ID: <20090728031748.GA11111@mit.edu>
Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:17:48 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@...xperts.de>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] NULL pointer dereference with corrupted image

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:24:10PM +0200, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> The following patch fixes the issue.
> 
> If an error happens ext4_decode_error() misses a check if there is a 
> valid journal. If there is no journal we dereference a NULL pointer,
> when we try to print the matching error string.

Applied to the ext4 patch queue, thanks.

						- Ted
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