From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> 3.4.105-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ commit a9cfcd63e8d206ce4235c355d857c4fbdf0f4587 upstream. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for extending smatch to find bugs like this. (This was found using a development version of smatch.) Fixes: 36de928641ee48b2078d3fe9514242aaa2f92013 Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: - s/new.bh/new_bh/ - drop the change to ext4_cross_rename()] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 1 + fs/ext4/resize.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index a2efbda..665e55c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2452,6 +2452,7 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, new_bh = ext4_find_entry(new_dir, &new_dentry->d_name, &new_de); if (IS_ERR(new_bh)) { retval = PTR_ERR(new_bh); + new_bh = NULL; goto end_rename; } if (new_bh) { diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c index 50992c3..a43e43c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ handle_bb: bh = bclean(handle, sb, block); if (IS_ERR(bh)) { err = PTR_ERR(bh); + bh = NULL; goto out; } if (ext4_bg_has_super(sb, group)) { @@ -556,6 +557,7 @@ handle_ib: bh = bclean(handle, sb, block); if (IS_ERR(bh)) { err = PTR_ERR(bh); + bh = NULL; goto out; } -- 1.9.1 -- 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