From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Move the call to BUG_ON to before the dereference of the tested value. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r@ expression x,E,E1; identifier f,l; position p1,p2; @@ *x@p1->f = E1; ... when != x = E when != goto l; ( *x@p2 == NULL | *x@p2 != NULL ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c index 7ffa3d3..8cc6025 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -2604,8 +2604,8 @@ noinline int btrfs_truncate_inode_items(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, if (root->ref_cows) btrfs_drop_extent_cache(inode, new_size & (~mask), (u64)-1, 0); path = btrfs_alloc_path(); - path->reada = -1; BUG_ON(!path); + path->reada = -1; /* FIXME, add redo link to tree so we don't leak on crash */ key.objectid = inode->i_ino; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
