From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx> For all the callers of dx_probe, frame_in is passed in uninitialized. So we should set frame->bh to NULL in the beginning of while, not the end. Otherwise, the first "goto fail2" will try to brelse(frame->bh) while frame->bh is still invalid. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/namei.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c index 34b6d9b..45468b9 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c @@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ dx_probe(struct qstr *entry, struct inode *dir, dxtrace (printk("Look up %x", hash)); while (1) { + frame->bh = NULL; count = dx_get_count(entries); if (!count || count > dx_get_limit(entries)) { ext3_warning(dir->i_sb, __func__, @@ -458,7 +459,6 @@ dx_probe(struct qstr *entry, struct inode *dir, goto fail2; } frame++; - frame->bh = NULL; } fail2: while (frame >= frame_in) { -- 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