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nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_load_super_block()
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According to the report from Slicky Devil, nilfs caused kernel oops at
nilfs_load_super_block function during mount after he shrank the
partition without resizing the filesystem:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000048
 IP: [<d0d7a08e>] nilfs_load_super_block+0x17e/0x280 [nilfs2]
 *pde = 00000000
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<d0d7a87b>] init_nilfs+0x4b/0x2e0 [nilfs2]
  [<d0d6f707>] nilfs_mount+0x447/0x5b0 [nilfs2]
  [<c0226636>] mount_fs+0x36/0x180
  [<c023d961>] vfs_kern_mount+0x51/0xa0
  [<c023ddae>] do_kern_mount+0x3e/0xe0
  [<c023f189>] do_mount+0x169/0x700
  [<c023fa9b>] sys_mount+0x6b/0xa0
  [<c04abd1f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
 Code: 53 18 8b 43 20 89 4b 18 8b 4b 24 89 53 1c 89 43 24 89 4b 20 8b 43
 20 c7 43 2c 00 00 00 00 23 75 e8 8b 50 68 89 53 28 8b 54 b3 20 <8b> 72
 48 8b 7a 4c 8b 55 08 89 b3 84 00 00 00 89 bb 88 00 00 00
 EIP: [<d0d7a08e>] nilfs_load_super_block+0x17e/0x280 [nilfs2] SS:ESP 0068:ca9bbdcc
 CR2: 0000000000000048

This turned out due to a defect in an error path which runs if the
calculated location of the secondary super block was invalid.

This patch fixes it and eliminates the reported oops.

Reported-by: Slicky Devil <slicky.dvl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Slicky Devil <slicky.dvl@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[2.6.30+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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konis authored and torvalds committed Mar 17, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ static int nilfs_load_super_block(struct the_nilfs *nilfs,
brelse(sbh[1]);
sbh[1] = NULL;
sbp[1] = NULL;
valid[1] = 0;
swp = 0;
}
if (!valid[swp]) {
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