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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix a NULL pointer when validating an inode bitmap
On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 02:06:29PM +0000, Luís Henriques wrote:
> > What makes you believe that? Look at how s_group_info is initialized
> > in ext4_mb_alloc_groupinfo() in fs/ext4/mballoc.c. It's pretty
> > careful to make sure this is not the case.
>
> Right. I may be missing something, but I don't think we get that far.
> __ext4_fill_super() will first call ext4_setup_system_zone() (which is
> where this bug occurs) and only after that ext4_mb_init() will be invoked
> (which is where ext4_mb_alloc_groupinfo() will eventually be called).

I finally got around to taking a closer look at this, and I have a
much better understandign of what is going on. For more details, and
a suggested fix, please see:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216541#c1

- Ted

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