Commit 7c9e69faa28027913ee059c285a5ea8382e24b5d results in the following inconsequent NULL checking in fs/ext4/balloc.c: <-- snip --> ... struct buffer_head * read_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, unsigned int block_group) { ... if (!bh) ext4_error (sb, __FUNCTION__, "Cannot read block bitmap - " "block_group = %d, block_bitmap = %llu", block_group, bitmap_blk); /* check whether block bitmap block number is set */ if (!block_in_use(bitmap_blk, sb, bh->b_data)) { ... ^^^^^^^^^^ <-- snip --> Spotted by the Coverity checker. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html