On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:40:54AM +0530, Rashika Kheria wrote: > This patch fixes the bug in reset_store caused by accessing NULL pointer. > > The bdev gets its value from bdget_disk() which could fail when memory > pressure is severe and hence can return NULL because allocation of > inode in bdget could fail. > > Hence, this patch introduces a check for bdev to prevent reference to a > NULL pointer in the later part of the code. It also removes unnecessary > check of bdev for fsync_bdev(). > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html