[Devel] Re: [PATCH] ext3: fix ext34_fill_super group description initialization
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Aug 13 02:20:52 PDT 2007
Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> ->s_group_desc have to be zero filled because if sb_read() failed
> we jump to following error path.
> failed_mount2:
> for (i = 0; i < db_count; i++)
> brelse(sbi->s_group_desc[i]);<< Bad things may happen here
>
But the db_count is updated in the failure path to point to the number
of successful sb_read.
-aneesh
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