From: Jan Kara Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:52:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1233845582-954-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> References: Cc: Andrew Morton , mfasheh@suse.com To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:35079 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756405AbZBEOxG (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:53:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, the three patches below fix a bug in jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() that could possibly lead to NULL pointer dereference. The question is how to merge the fix as it changes the prototype of the function and both ext4 and ocfs2 use it. Mark, Mingming, any suggestions? Honza