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authorLubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>2010-06-29 15:05:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-06-29 15:29:32 -0700
commit46c23d7f520e315dde86881b38ba92ebdf34ced5 (patch)
tree30a14e15710e9fe9ba38ac667ce7ed5734db3342 /fs/sysv
parent926b1e2ca35ccb3cbe0ea9b322c5330869b95046 (diff)
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sysvfs: fix NULL deref. when allocating new inode
A call to sysv_write_inode() in sysv_new_inode() to its new interface that replaced wait flag with writeback structure. This was broken by a9185b41a4f84971b930c519f0c63bd450c4810d ("pass writeback_control to ->write_inode"). Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.34.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysv')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysv/ialloc.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysv/ialloc.c b/fs/sysv/ialloc.c
index bbd69bdb0fa8..fcc498ec9b33 100644
--- a/fs/sysv/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/sysv/ialloc.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include "sysv.h"
/* We don't trust the value of
@@ -139,6 +140,9 @@ struct inode * sysv_new_inode(const struct inode * dir, mode_t mode)
struct inode *inode;
sysv_ino_t ino;
unsigned count;
+ struct writeback_control wbc = {
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE
+ };
inode = new_inode(sb);
if (!inode)
@@ -168,7 +172,7 @@ struct inode * sysv_new_inode(const struct inode * dir, mode_t mode)
insert_inode_hash(inode);
mark_inode_dirty(inode);
- sysv_write_inode(inode, 0); /* ensure inode not allocated again */
+ sysv_write_inode(inode, &wbc); /* ensure inode not allocated again */
mark_inode_dirty(inode); /* cleared by sysv_write_inode() */
/* That's it. */
unlock_super(sb);