From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Source kernel commit: 77ca1eed5a7d2bf0905562eb1a15aac76bc19fe4 When I lifted the code in xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_lastblock out of a loop, I forgot to convert all the accesses to len to be pointer dereferences. Coverity-id: 1457918 Fixes: 5113f8ec3753ed ("xfs: clean up weird while loop in xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_near") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- libxfs/xfs_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c b/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c index 841b0305..fee4039c 100644 --- a/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c +++ b/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c @@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_lastblock( * maxlen, go to the start of this block, and skip all those smaller * than minlen. */ - if (len || args->alignment > 1) { + if (*len || args->alignment > 1) { acur->cnt->bc_ptrs[0] = 1; do { error = xfs_alloc_get_rec(acur->cnt, bno, len, &i); -- 2.26.2