Re: [PATCH] avoid NULL deference in ext2_xattr_get

Dan Carpenter
2010-07-10T09:09:52Z

Good catch. Your change is correct but can you resend it?

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 04:07:28PM +0800, shenghui wrote:
> >From adc1fa6535034db3b6d8deebda6ec7eaa8bfd2f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Wang Sheng-Hui <crosslonelyover@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:05:53 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] avoid NULL deference in ext2_xattr_get
>

The longer description of the bug should go here.

>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <crosslonelyover@gmail.com>
> ---
> fs/ext2/xattr.c | 5 +++--
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
> index 7c39157..81ec1c6 100644
> --- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
> @@ -156,11 +156,12 @@ ext2_xattr_get(struct inode *inode, int
> name_index, const char *name,
^^^^^^

Your email client line wrapped the patch. Please send it to yourself
and then save the email including headers and everything.
cd linux-2.6
cat ~/your-email-text | patch -p1

If it applies cleanly then resend it to the list.

regards,
dan carpenter