From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:39:29 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ocfs2: potential ERR_PTR dereference on error paths X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~10186^2~1693 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8cab1cb1cddb0731a0597575389230389ddea882;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git ocfs2: potential ERR_PTR dereference on error paths commit 0350cb078f5035716ebdad4ad4709d02fe466a8a upstream. If "handle" is non null at the end of the function then we assume it's a valid pointer and pass it to ocfs2_commit_trans(); Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Joel Becker Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c index 0297fb8982b8..4c827d865474 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c @@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ static int ocfs2_truncate_for_delete(struct ocfs2_super *osb, handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { status = PTR_ERR(handle); + handle = NULL; mlog_errno(status); goto out; }