We dereference "bh" unconditionally a couple lines down to find "by->b_size". This function is never called with a NULL "bh" so I have removed the check. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c index 164c560..a4a0234 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/dir.c +++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c @@ -91,17 +91,17 @@ int __ext4_check_dir_entry(const char *function, unsigned int line, return 0; if (filp) - ext4_error_file(filp, function, line, bh ? bh->b_blocknr : 0, + ext4_error_file(filp, function, line, bh->b_blocknr, "bad entry in directory: %s - offset=%u(%u), " "inode=%u, rec_len=%d, name_len=%d", - error_msg, (unsigned) (offset%bh->b_size), + error_msg, (unsigned) (offset % bh->b_size), offset, le32_to_cpu(de->inode), rlen, de->name_len); else - ext4_error_inode(dir, function, line, bh ? bh->b_blocknr : 0, + ext4_error_inode(dir, function, line, bh->b_blocknr, "bad entry in directory: %s - offset=%u(%u), " "inode=%u, rec_len=%d, name_len=%d", - error_msg, (unsigned) (offset%bh->b_size), + error_msg, (unsigned) (offset % bh->b_size), offset, le32_to_cpu(de->inode), rlen, de->name_len); -- 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