[PATCH] And another small ntfs fix

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Linus,

Please apply below patch. It is incremental to patch before previous one.

Fixes a truly silly bug reported by the Stanford Checker, where we
dereference an inode pointer and then check for it not being NULL
afterwards...

Best regards,

        Anton

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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Linux NTFS maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/
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------ cut here -------
--- linux-2.4.7-pre8-vanilla/fs/ntfs/dir.c.old	Wed Jul 25 00:03:57 2001
+++ linux-2.4.7-pre8-vanilla/fs/ntfs/dir.c	Wed Jul 25 00:04:40 2001
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@
 	int block;
 	int start;
 	ntfs_attribute *attr;
-	ntfs_volume *vol = ino->vol;
+	ntfs_volume *vol;
 	int byte, bit;
 	int error = 0;
 
@@ -797,6 +797,7 @@
 		ntfs_error("No inode passed to getdir_unsorted\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
+	vol = ino->vol;
 	if (!vol) {
 		ntfs_error("Inode %d has no volume\n", ino->i_number);
 		return -EINVAL;
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