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Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:56:02 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ext4:dev 40/60] fs/ext4/inode.c:1953
 __ext4_journalled_writepage() error: potential NULL dereference 'page_bufs'.

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 09:25:45PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 	Thanks for the report. Can you check whether this patch
> works for you?
> 

It looks good.

Like I mentioned before Smatch doesn't understand
ext4_has_inline_data() so it still complains later on in the
function.  But it's now obvious to a human reader that there won't
be a NULL dereference.

regards,
dan carpenter

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