The patch titled md: check return code of read_sb_page has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is md-check-return-code-of-read_sb_page.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: md: check return code of read_sb_page From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> Function read_sb_page may return ERR_PTR(...). Check for it. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-check-return-code-of-read_sb_page drivers/md/bitmap.c --- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-check-return-code-of-read_sb_page +++ a/drivers/md/bitmap.c @@ -936,6 +936,7 @@ static int bitmap_init_from_disk(struct int outofdate; int ret = -ENOSPC; void *paddr; + struct page *p; chunks = bitmap->chunks; file = bitmap->file; @@ -999,11 +1000,16 @@ static int bitmap_init_from_disk(struct */ page = bitmap->sb_page; offset = sizeof(bitmap_super_t); - if (!file) - read_sb_page(bitmap->mddev, + if (!file) { + p = read_sb_page(bitmap->mddev, bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.offset, page, index, count); + if (IS_ERR(p)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(p); + goto err; + } + } } else if (file) { page = read_page(file, index, bitmap, count); offset = 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from segooon@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch md-check-return-code-of-read_sb_page.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