ext4: don't dereference null pointer when make_indexed_dir() fails
Fix for a null pointer bug found while running punch hole tests
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 3c7a06e..b754b77 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1413,6 +1413,10 @@
frame->at = entries;
frame->bh = bh;
bh = bh2;
+
+ ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, frame->bh);
+ ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, bh);
+
de = do_split(handle,dir, &bh, frame, &hinfo, &retval);
if (!de) {
/*
@@ -1421,8 +1425,6 @@
* with corrupted filesystem.
*/
ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
- ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, frame->bh);
- ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, bh);
dx_release(frames);
return retval;
}