From: Mark Fasheh Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:32:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20090205193217.GZ17410@wotan.suse.de> References: <1233845582-954-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Reply-To: Mark Fasheh Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52655 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756923AbZBETcT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:32:19 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1233845582-954-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:52:59PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > 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? This seems like it'd be easiest for Andrew to carry. The Ocfs2 patch is unlikely to conflict with anything in my tree. Btw, you can add: Acked-by: Mark Fasheh to the Ocfs2 patch. --Mark -- Mark Fasheh