The patch titled udf: possible null pointer dereference while load_partition has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was udf-possible-null-pointer-dereference-while-load_partition.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: udf: possible null pointer dereference while load_partition From: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> sb_read may return NULL, let's explicitly check it. Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/udf/super.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/udf/super.c~udf-possible-null-pointer-dereference-while-load_partition fs/udf/super.c --- a/fs/udf/super.c~udf-possible-null-pointer-dereference-while-load_partition +++ a/fs/udf/super.c @@ -1403,6 +1403,8 @@ udf_load_partition(struct super_block *s pos = udf_block_map(UDF_SB_VAT(sb), 0); bh = sb_bread(sb, pos); + if (!bh) + return 1; UDF_SB_TYPEVIRT(sb,i).s_start_offset = le16_to_cpu(((struct virtualAllocationTable20 *)bh->b_data + udf_ext0_offset(UDF_SB_VAT(sb)))->lengthHeader) + udf_ext0_offset(UDF_SB_VAT(sb)); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html