The patch titled reiser4: fixed null pointer dereference has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was reiser4-fixed-null-pointer-dereference.patch This patch was dropped because it was nacked The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: reiser4: fixed null pointer dereference From: Johannes Buchner <buchner.johannes@xxxxxx> The parameter wbc=NULL caused a NULL pointer dereference in reiser4_sync_inodes. This issue was introduced in patch reiser4-vfs-add-super_operationssync_inodes Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/reiser4/super_ops.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/reiser4/super_ops.c~reiser4-fixed-null-pointer-dereference fs/reiser4/super_ops.c --- a/fs/reiser4/super_ops.c~reiser4-fixed-null-pointer-dereference +++ a/fs/reiser4/super_ops.c @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ static void reiser4_sync_inodes(struct s reiser4_context *ctx; long to_write; - if (wbc->for_kupdate) + if (wbc == NULL || wbc->for_kupdate) /* reiser4 has its own means of periodical write-out */ return; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from buchner.johannes@xxxxxx are reiser4-some-changes-from-reiser4-2631-patch.patch reiser4-some-comments-were-still-mentioning-pdflush.patch reiser4-generic_sync_sb_inodes-doesnt-exist-anymore.patch reiser4-fixed-null-pointer-dereference.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