Re: 2.6 patch] fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:fill_super_meta(): fix NULLdereference

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Thu Oct 19 2006 - 10:02:59 EST


Hi,

... and this one is pushed to the GFS2 git tree too. Thanks for the
patches,

Steve.

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:27 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Don't dereference new->s_root when we do know it's NULL.
>
> Spotted by the Coverity checker.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c.old 2006-10-19 15:24:23.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c 2006-10-19 15:24:32.000000000 +0200
> @@ -793,10 +793,10 @@ static int fill_super_meta(struct super_
> if (!new->s_root) {
> fs_err(sdp, "can't get root dentry\n");
> error = -ENOMEM;
> iput(inode);
> - }
> - new->s_root->d_op = &gfs2_dops;
> + } else
> + new->s_root->d_op = &gfs2_dops;
>
> return error;
> }
>
>

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