Commit 6976a6f2 authored by Allison Henderson's avatar Allison Henderson Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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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: default avatarAllison Henderson <achender@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 44183d42

fs/ext4/namei.c

+4 −2
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@@ -1413,6 +1413,10 @@ 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) {

		/*
@@ -1421,8 +1425,6 @@ 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;

	}