On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:40:54AM +0530, Rashika Kheria wrote: > This patch fixes the bug in reset_store caused by accessing NULL pointer. > > The bdev gets its value from bdget_disk() which could fail when memory > pressure is severe and hence can return NULL because allocation of > inode in bdget could fail. > > Hence, this patch introduces a check for bdev to prevent reference to a > NULL pointer in the later part of the code. It also removes unnecessary > check of bdev for fsync_bdev(). > > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <[email protected]> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
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