Fail journal creation if __getblk() returns NULL. unlikely() is added because it is called in a loop and we've been OK without the check until now. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd/journal.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c index 7fee247..3290fe9 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c @@ -950,6 +950,8 @@ int journal_create(journal_t *journal) if (err) return err; bh = __getblk(journal->j_dev, blocknr, journal->j_blocksize); + if (unlikely(!bh)) + return -ENOMEM; lock_buffer(bh); memset (bh->b_data, 0, journal->j_blocksize); BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "marking dirty"); -- 1.7.0.4 -- 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