btrfs_read_fs_root_no_name() returns ERR_PTRs on error so I added a check for that. It's not clear to me if it can also return NULL pointers or not so I left the original NULL pointer check as is. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c index 73895ba..34f7c37 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c @@ -1985,6 +1985,10 @@ struct btrfs_root *open_ctree(struct super_block *sb, fs_info->fs_root = btrfs_read_fs_root_no_name(fs_info, &location); if (!fs_info->fs_root) goto fail_trans_kthread; + if (IS_ERR(fs_info->fs_root)) { + err = PTR_ERR(fs_info->fs_root); + goto fail_trans_kthread; + } if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) { down_read(&fs_info->cleanup_work_sem); -- 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