Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 31 May 2002 19:32:19 +0300 | From | Dan Aloni <> | Subject | [PATCH] fix NULL dereferencing in dcache.c |
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Unrelated to my first dcache patch, this is something more crucial and should be applied first.
fs/dcache.c: - handle d_alloc() returning NULL.
--- linux-2.5.19/fs/dcache.c Thu May 30 22:35:37 2002 +++ linux-2.5.19/fs/dcache.c Fri May 31 19:19:18 2002 @@ -755,6 +755,9 @@ } tmp = d_alloc(NULL, &(const struct qstr) {"",0,0}); + if (!tmp) + return NULL; + tmp->d_parent = tmp; /* make sure dput doesn't croak */ spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
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