If __getname() fails in mount_block_root() we are dead in the water, but
a panic() seems a little nicer than crashing due to a NULL pointer deref.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
---
init/do_mounts.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-git2-orig/init/do_mounts.c 2006-05-13 21:28:53.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-git2/init/do_mounts.c 2006-05-14 02:05:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -286,6 +286,8 @@ void __init mount_block_root(char *name,
char *p;
char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+ if (!fs_names)
+ panic("VFS: Failed memory allocation in mount_block_root()");
get_fs_names(fs_names);
retry:
for (p = fs_names; *p; p += strlen(p)+1) {
@@ -425,4 +427,3 @@ out:
security_sb_post_mountroot();
mount_devfs_fs ();
}
-
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