If no device in the array contains a valid super block, "freshest" will be NULL, but we happily dereference that pointer in the subsequent call to validate_super(). Fix it by returning early in this case. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 7943df1..bf1499c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -2249,6 +2249,10 @@ static void analyze_sbs(mddev_t * mddev) kick_rdev_from_array(rdev); } + if (!freshest) { + printk(KERN_ERR "md: no valid devices found\n"); + return; + } super_types[mddev->major_version]. validate_super(mddev, freshest); -- 1.5.3.8 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html