Re: [PATCH] ext4: return error code when ext4_fill_flex_info() fails
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2021-06-17 14:52:44
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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2021-06-17 14:52:44
Also in:
lkml, stable
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 07:10:51PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
After commit c89128a00838 ("ext4: handle errors on ext4_commit_super"), 'ret' may
be set to 0 before calling ext4_fill_flex_info(), if ext4_fill_flex_info() fails
ext4_mount() doesn't return error code, it makes 'root' is null which causes
crash in legacy_get_tree().
Fixes: c89128a00838 ("ext4: handle errors on ext4_commit_super")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <redacted>
Cc: <redacted> # v4.18+
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <redacted>Applied, thanks. - Ted