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From: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
To: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix a possible corruption in dx_probe.
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:17:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E643150.4040904@tao.ma> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110904135740.GD3461@thunk.org>

On 09/04/2011 09:57 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:00:52AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
>> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
>>
>> For all the callers of dx_probe, frame_in is passed in uninitialized.
>> So we should set frame->bh to NULL in the beginning of while, not
>> the end. Otherwise, the first "goto fail2" will try to brelse(frame->bh)
>> while frame->bh is still invalid.
> 
> There's a "frame->bh = NULL" statement at the very beginning of
> dx_probe().   Shouldn't that do the trick?
Oh, sorry for the false alarm.

Thanks
Tao

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-31 16:00 [PATCH] ext4: Fix a possible corruption in dx_probe Tao Ma
2011-09-04 13:57 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-05  2:17   ` Tao Ma [this message]

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