reiserfs_iget() returns either NULL or error code in ERR_PTR. And we were only checking for NULL, so in case of some other error we will try to dereference the ERR_PTR(-errno) thinking it to be a valid pointer. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/reiserfs/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c index 05db747..c0306ec 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static int finish_unfinished(struct super_block *s) pathrelse(&path); inode = reiserfs_iget(s, &obj_key); - if (!inode) { + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(inode)) { /* * the unlink almost completed, it just did not * manage to remove "save" link and release objectid -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html