Re: [PATCH] [2.6] Make reiserfs not to crash on oom

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 07:50:38PM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote:
 > Hello!
 > 
 >   Thanks to Standford guys, a case where reiserfs can dereference NULL pointer
 >   if memory allocation fail during mount was identified.
 > 
 > @@ -2260,8 +2260,10 @@
 >      INIT_LIST_HEAD (&SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_prealloc_list);
 >      INIT_LIST_HEAD(&SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_working_list);
 >      INIT_LIST_HEAD(&SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_journal_list);
 > -    reiserfs_allocate_list_bitmaps(p_s_sb, SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_list_bitmap, 
 > - 				   SB_BMAP_NR(p_s_sb)) ;
 > +    if (reiserfs_allocate_list_bitmaps(p_s_sb,
 > +				       SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_list_bitmap, 
 > + 				       SB_BMAP_NR(p_s_sb)))
 > +	goto free_and_return ;
 >      allocate_bitmap_nodes(p_s_sb) ;

Are you leaking the 'journal' allocation here?
(Ditto some of the other failure paths too)

There's also a typod 'jornal' a few lines further down.

		Dave