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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: maneesh@in.ibm.com
Cc: braam@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	david+cert@blue-labs.org
Subject: Re: [OOPS] 2.5.62, bootup, do_add_mount
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:04:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030225000448.6f5e0d22.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030225080350.GD1109@in.ibm.com>

Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> presto_get_sb() is returning error resulting in the following NULL 
> pointer reference in do_kern_mount(). The following patch corrects
> it.
> 

It should be returning some ERR_PTR value.  Seems that presto_get_sb() isn't
very careful in tracking the reason for the failed mount, so

	return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

should suffice.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-25  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-22  4:47 [OOPS] 2.5.62, bootup, do_add_mount David Ford
2003-02-25  8:03 ` Maneesh Soni
2003-02-25  8:04   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-02-25  9:47     ` Maneesh Soni
2003-02-25 20:06       ` Peter Braam

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