Re: [PATCH] [2.6] Make reiserfs not to crash on oom

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 13:10:34 EST


On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 07:50:38PM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks to Standford guys, a case where reiserfs can dereference NULL pointer
> if memory allocation fail during mount was identified.
>
> @@ -2260,8 +2260,10 @@
> INIT_LIST_HEAD (&SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_prealloc_list);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_working_list);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_journal_list);
> - reiserfs_allocate_list_bitmaps(p_s_sb, SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_list_bitmap,
> - SB_BMAP_NR(p_s_sb)) ;
> + if (reiserfs_allocate_list_bitmaps(p_s_sb,
> + SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_list_bitmap,
> + SB_BMAP_NR(p_s_sb)))
> + goto free_and_return ;
> allocate_bitmap_nodes(p_s_sb) ;

Are you leaking the 'journal' allocation here?
(Ditto some of the other failure paths too)

There's also a typod 'jornal' a few lines further down.

Dave

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