From 98bd5c547ef2300f915fc1adce5b6f25c195d4d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Sterba Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:21:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: sync ioctl, handle errors after transaction start The version merged to 3.19 did not handle errors from start_trancaction and could pass an invalid pointer to commit_transaction. Fixes: 6b5fe46dfa52441f ("btrfs: do commit in sync_fs if there are pending changes") Reported-by: Filipe Manana Signed-off-by: David Sterba Signed-off-by: Chris Mason --- fs/btrfs/super.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c index 60f7cbe815e9..c86fb5438454 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/super.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c @@ -1001,9 +1001,9 @@ int btrfs_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait) if (fs_info->pending_changes == 0) return 0; trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 0); - } else { - return PTR_ERR(trans); } + if (IS_ERR(trans)) + return PTR_ERR(trans); } return btrfs_commit_transaction(trans, root); } -- 2.41.0