The patch titled ext4: error proc entry creation when the fs/ext4 is not correctly created has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext4-error-proc-entry-creation-when-the-fs-ext4-is-not-correctly-created.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext4: error proc entry creation when the fs/ext4 is not correctly created From: Shen Feng <shen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> When the directory fs/ext4 is not correctly created under proc, the entry under this directory should not be created. Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/ext4/mballoc.c~ext4-error-proc-entry-creation-when-the-fs-ext4-is-not-correctly-created fs/ext4/mballoc.c --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c~ext4-error-proc-entry-creation-when-the-fs-ext4-is-not-correctly-created +++ a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2645,6 +2645,10 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_per_dev_proc(str struct proc_dir_entry *proc; char devname[64]; + if (proc_root_ext4 == NULL) { + sbi->s_mb_proc = NULL; + return -EINVAL; + } bdevname(sb->s_bdev, devname); sbi->s_mb_proc = proc_mkdir(devname, proc_root_ext4); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are ext4-error-proc-entry-creation-when-the-fs-ext4-is-not-correctly-created.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