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authorAllison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-05-15 00:19:41 -0400
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2014-02-10 16:11:28 -0500
commit3b73beed27b6ad3877b7257ae17419930b8ae90c (patch)
treea3de7694fe7660b41b558e6faf70934e9a94bf6c
parent20341d16ad9e8df56cbeac40471a6883ca60d751 (diff)
ext4: don't dereference null pointer when make_indexed_dir() fails
commit 6976a6f2acde2b0443cd64f1d08af90630e4ce81 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/namei.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index caa3c77f1743..41198b355a26 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1451,6 +1451,10 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
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) {
/*
@@ -1459,8 +1463,6 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
* 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;
}