ext4: Avoid null pointer dereference when decoding EROFS w/o a journal
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:09:47 +0000 (23:09 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:09:47 +0000 (23:09 -0400)
We need to check to make sure a journal is present before checking the
journal flags in ext4_decode_error().

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@lsexperts.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/super.c

index 8f4f079e6b9a2a850c459b8677f7911fd326f4ca..fe3f376b7df24482dec5e38b3337ce8ec761070f 100644 (file)
@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ static const char *ext4_decode_error(struct super_block *sb, int errno,
                errstr = "Out of memory";
                break;
        case -EROFS:
-               if (!sb || EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal->j_flags & JBD2_ABORT)
+               if (!sb || (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal &&
+                           EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal->j_flags & JBD2_ABORT))
                        errstr = "Journal has aborted";
                else
                        errstr = "Readonly filesystem";