[PATCH] null dereference in fs/jbd2/journal.c
This is Eric Sesterhenn's jbd patch applied to jbd2.
Commit: 41716c7c21b15e7ecf14f0caf1eef3980707fb74
His words:
Since commit d1807793e1e7e502e3dc047115e9dbc3b50e4534 we dereference a NULL
pointer. Coverity id #1432. We set journal to NULL, and use it directly
afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 10db92c..c60f378 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@
__FUNCTION__);
kfree(journal);
journal = NULL;
+ goto out;
}
journal->j_dev = bdev;
journal->j_fs_dev = fs_dev;
@@ -735,7 +736,7 @@
J_ASSERT(bh != NULL);
journal->j_sb_buffer = bh;
journal->j_superblock = (journal_superblock_t *)bh->b_data;
-
+out:
return journal;
}