Change gfs2_lookupi to either return an inode or an error. None of the callers of gfs2_lookupi expect a NULL on error and such would end up dereferencing all NULL ptr. This fixes: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-15-11-2006.html Signed-off-by: Russell Cattelan Index: gfs2_crap/fs/gfs2/inode.c =================================================================== --- gfs2_crap.orig/fs/gfs2/inode.c 2007-01-04 19:40:39.000000000 -0600 +++ gfs2_crap/fs/gfs2/inode.c 2007-01-04 19:43:01.694217574 -0600 @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ struct inode *gfs2_lookupi(struct inode out: gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&d_gh); if (error == -ENOENT) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(error); return inode; }