Re: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_ext_remove_space on 3.5.1

Theodore Ts'o
2012-08-16T21:19:58Z

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 01:21:12PM -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> This would probably be much more readable code if the 'i=0' init was
> before path=kzalloc.

Good point, I agree. I'll move the initialization so i gets
initialized in both branches of the if statement.

Maciej, you weren't able to reliably repro the crash were you? I'm
pretty sure this should fix the crash, but it would be really great to
confirm things.

I suspect creating a file system with a really small journal may make
it easier to reproduce, but I haven't had time to try create a
reliable repro for this bug yet.

Thanks,

- Ted