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authorEric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>2006-10-11 12:20:37 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-11 22:14:14 +0400
commit41716c7c21b15e7ecf14f0caf1eef3980707fb74 (patch)
tree622cd9c92a31969681ef2c0cd865147dfa495933 /fs/jbd
parent7e491092e442b3f8c0d90d470b398fdb74703ec7 (diff)
downloadlinux-41716c7c21b15e7ecf14f0caf1eef3980707fb74.tar.xz
[PATCH] null dereference in fs/jbd/journal.c
Since commit d1807793e1e7e502e3dc047115e9dbc3b50e4534 we dereference a NULL pointer. Coverity id #1432. We set journal to NULL, and use it directly afterwards. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jbd')
-rw-r--r--fs/jbd/journal.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c
index c518dd8fe60a..b85c686b60db 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ journal_t * journal_init_dev(struct block_device *bdev,
__FUNCTION__);
kfree(journal);
journal = NULL;
+ goto out;
}
journal->j_dev = bdev;
journal->j_fs_dev = fs_dev;
@@ -735,7 +736,7 @@ journal_t * journal_init_dev(struct block_device *bdev,
J_ASSERT(bh != NULL);
journal->j_sb_buffer = bh;
journal->j_superblock = (journal_superblock_t *)bh->b_data;
-
+out:
return journal;
}