It's possible for ext4_get_acl() to return an ERR_PTR. So we need to add a check for this case in __ext4_new_inode(). Otherwise on an error we can end up oops the kernel. This was getting triggered by xfstests generic/388, which is a test which exercises the shutdown code path. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c index b4267d72f249..b32cf263750d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -816,6 +816,8 @@ struct inode *__ext4_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir, #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL struct posix_acl *p = get_acl(dir, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT); + if (IS_ERR(p)) + return ERR_CAST(p); if (p) { int acl_size = p->a_count * sizeof(ext4_acl_entry); -- 2.11.0.rc0.7.gbe5a750