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ext4: fix oops when loading block bitmap failed

When we fail to load block bitmap in __ext4_new_inode() we will
dereference NULL pointer in ext4_journal_get_write_access(). So check
for error from ext4_read_block_bitmap().

Coverity-id: 989065
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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Jan Kara and committed by
Theodore Ts'o
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fs/ext4/ialloc.c
··· 887 887 struct buffer_head *block_bitmap_bh; 888 888 889 889 block_bitmap_bh = ext4_read_block_bitmap(sb, group); 890 + if (!block_bitmap_bh) { 891 + err = -EIO; 892 + goto out; 893 + } 890 894 BUFFER_TRACE(block_bitmap_bh, "get block bitmap access"); 891 895 err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, block_bitmap_bh); 892 896 if (err) {