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Message-Id: <1160597827.12884.15.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:17:07 -0500 From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de> Subject: [PATCH] null dereference in fs/jbd2/journal.c This is Eric Sesterhenn's jbd patch applied to jbd2. Commit: 41716c7c21b15e7ecf14f0caf1eef3980707fb74 His words: Since commit d1807793e1e7e502e3dc047115e9dbc3b50e4534 we dereference a NULL pointer. Coverity id #1432. We set journal to NULL, and use it directly afterwards. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index 10db92c..c60f378 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ journal_t * jbd2_journal_init_dev(struct __FUNCTION__); kfree(journal); journal = NULL; + goto out; } journal->j_dev = bdev; journal->j_fs_dev = fs_dev; @@ -735,7 +736,7 @@ journal_t * jbd2_journal_init_dev(struct J_ASSERT(bh != NULL); journal->j_sb_buffer = bh; journal->j_superblock = (journal_superblock_t *)bh->b_data; - +out: return journal; } -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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