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| author | Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> | 2009-05-17 01:02:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-05-17 11:45:45 -0700 |
| commit | ceb5edc457f07956c82dccfb54ca8ae7e2a399f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b58e5a5e359090e47583ec0b49e7b29af0b2179 /fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | |
| parent | 12abb35a03e32c97235fcefdcf2d851be9f82dc2 (diff) | |
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reiserfs: deal with NULL xattr root w/ xattrs disabled
This avoids an Oops in open_xa_root that can occur when deleting a file
with xattrs disabled. It assumes that the xattr root will be there, and
that is not guaranteed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/reiserfs/xattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c index cf949646dd57..628075ca82c1 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c @@ -123,7 +123,9 @@ static struct dentry *open_xa_root(struct super_block *sb, int flags) mutex_lock_nested(&privroot->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_XATTR); xaroot = dget(REISERFS_SB(sb)->xattr_root); - if (!xaroot->d_inode) { + if (!xaroot) + xaroot = ERR_PTR(-ENODATA); + else if (!xaroot->d_inode) { int err = -ENODATA; if (xattr_may_create(flags)) err = xattr_mkdir(privroot->d_inode, xaroot, 0700); |
