We can't dereference "bg" before it has been assigned. GCC should have warned about this but "bg" was initialized to NULL. I've fixed that as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Static analysis stuff. Compile tested only. diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c index 995d1b4..f81d23c 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static int ocfs2_validate_and_adjust_move_goal(struct inode *inode, int ret, goal_bit = 0; struct buffer_head *gd_bh = NULL; - struct ocfs2_group_desc *bg = NULL; + struct ocfs2_group_desc *bg; struct ocfs2_super *osb = OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb); int c_to_b = 1 << (osb->s_clustersize_bits - inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits); @@ -482,13 +482,6 @@ static int ocfs2_validate_and_adjust_move_goal(struct inode *inode, range->me_goal = ocfs2_block_to_cluster_start(inode->i_sb, range->me_goal); /* - * moving goal is not allowd to start with a group desc blok(#0 blk) - * let's compromise to the latter cluster. - */ - if (range->me_goal == le64_to_cpu(bg->bg_blkno)) - range->me_goal += c_to_b; - - /* * validate goal sits within global_bitmap, and return the victim * group desc */ @@ -502,6 +495,13 @@ static int ocfs2_validate_and_adjust_move_goal(struct inode *inode, bg = (struct ocfs2_group_desc *)gd_bh->b_data; /* + * moving goal is not allowd to start with a group desc blok(#0 blk) + * let's compromise to the latter cluster. + */ + if (range->me_goal == le64_to_cpu(bg->bg_blkno)) + range->me_goal += c_to_b; + + /* * movement is not gonna cross two groups. */ if ((le16_to_cpu(bg->bg_bits) - goal_bit) * osb->s_clustersize < -- 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