Re: [BUG]Missing i_sb NULL pointer check in destroy_inode()

[Mingming Cao]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 11:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > destroy_inode() dereferences inode->i_sb without checking if it is NULL.
> > This is inconsistent with its caller: iput() and clear_inode(),  both of
> > which check inode->i_sb before dereferencing it.
> 
> I assume this has only been observed with an out-of-tree filesystem, but
> yes, the consistency is good.
> 

Yes,  the crash happened with an out-of-tree filesystem.  Thanks.

-Mingming


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