From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54726 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751267AbbASNVG (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:21:06 -0500 Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D903ACB2 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:21:04 +0000 (UTC) From: David Sterba To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: fdmanana@suse.com, David Sterba Subject: [PATCH 3.19-rc] btrfs: sync ioctl, handle errors after transaction start Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:21:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1421673662-11530-1-git-send-email-dsterba@suse.cz> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The version merged to 3.19 did not handle errors from start_trancaction and could pass an invalid pointer to commit_transaction. Fixes: 6b5fe46dfa52441f ("btrfs: do commit in sync_fs if there are pending changes") Reported-by: Filipe Manana Signed-off-by: David Sterba --- This is a followup to a patch merged during this dev cycle. fs/btrfs/super.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c index 60f7cbe815e9..c86fb5438454 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/super.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c @@ -1001,9 +1001,9 @@ int btrfs_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait) if (fs_info->pending_changes == 0) return 0; trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 0); - } else { - return PTR_ERR(trans); } + if (IS_ERR(trans)) + return PTR_ERR(trans); } return btrfs_commit_transaction(trans, root); } -- 1.8.4.5