On Tue 19-10-10 16:57:29, Namhyung Kim wrote: > 2010-10-19 (í), 15:34 +0900, Namhyung Kim: > > Check return value of sb_getblk() is NULL. unlikely is addded here > > since it is called from a loop and we've been OK without the check > > until now. > > > > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > fs/ext3/inode.c | 6 ++++++ > > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c > > index ef1c23a..a7ac778 100644 > > --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c > > +++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c > > @@ -655,6 +655,12 @@ static int ext3_alloc_branch(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, > > * parent to disk. > > */ > > bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, new_blocks[n-1]); > > + if (unlikely(!bh)) { > > + n--; > > + err = -ENOMEM; > > + goto failed; > > + } > > + > > branch[n].bh = bh; > > lock_buffer(bh); > > BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call get_create_access"); > > Maybe EIO would be more proper error code, I guess. Hmm, for ext3, sb_getblk() cannot really realistically fail. Block numbers are 32-bit so they can never be big enough to overflow pagecache index and grow_buffers() loops indefinitely if it cannot allocate buffers. But OK, EIO might be a reasonable return value and we can have the check there just in case sb_getblk() grows some other possiblility to fail. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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