The patch titled
null dereference in fs/jbd2/journal.c
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
null-dereference-in-fs-jbd2-journalc.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: null dereference in fs/jbd2/journal.c
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This is Eric Sesterhenn's jbd patch applied to jbd2.
Commit: 41716c7c21b15e7ecf14f0caf1eef3980707fb74
His words:
Since commit d1807793e1e7e502e3dc047115e9dbc3b50e4534 we dereference a NULL
pointer. Coverity id #1432. We set journal to NULL, and use it directly
afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/jbd2/journal.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/jbd2/journal.c~null-dereference-in-fs-jbd2-journalc fs/jbd2/journal.c
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c~null-dereference-in-fs-jbd2-journalc
+++ a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ journal_t * jbd2_journal_init_dev(struct
__FUNCTION__);
kfree(journal);
journal = NULL;
+ goto out;
}
journal->j_dev = bdev;
journal->j_fs_dev = fs_dev;
@@ -735,7 +736,7 @@ journal_t * jbd2_journal_init_dev(struct
J_ASSERT(bh != NULL);
journal->j_sb_buffer = bh;
journal->j_superblock = (journal_superblock_t *)bh->b_data;
-
+out:
return journal;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
ext4-copy.patch
ext4-rename.patch
ext4-enable.patch
jbd2-copy.patch
jbd2-rename.patch
jbd2-enable.patch
jbd2-cleanup.patch
ext4-extents.patch
ext4_fsblk_sector_t.patch
ext4-extents-48bit.patch
ext4-unitialized-extent-handling.patch
extents_comment_fix.patch
64bit_jbd2_core.patch
sector_t-jbd2.patch
ext4_48bit_i_file_acl.patch
64bit-metadata.patch
ext4_blk_type_from_sector_t_to_ulonglong.patch
ext4_remove_sector_t_bits_check.patch
jbd2_blks_type_from_sector_t_to_ull.patch
ext4_allow_larger_descriptor_size.patch
ext4_move_block_number_hi_bits.patch
documentation-filesystems-ext4txt.patch
null-dereference-in-fs-jbd2-journalc.patch
git-cifs.patch
airo-suspend-fix.patch
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