Re: [PATCH] ext3: fix ext34_fill_super group description initialization

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 09:28:55 EST




Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
->s_group_desc have to be zero filled because if sb_read() failed
we jump to following error path.
failed_mount2:
for (i = 0; i < db_count; i++)
brelse(sbi->s_group_desc[i]);<< Bad things may happen here



But the db_count is updated in the failure path to point to the number
of successful sb_read.

-aneesh
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