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SubjectRe: [PATCH] To add NULL pointer check
+-- On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Jaegeuk Kim wrote --+
| I'm confusing the question because f2fs doesn't use generic_writepages(),
| since f2fs_write_data_pages() is linked to a_ops->writepages. In
| do_writepages(), always f2fs_write_data_pages() is triggered instead of
| generic_writepages(). Isn't it?

Before commit fa9150a84c, when `generic_writepages' returned 0, it did not
abort `f2fs_write_data_pages', as the proposed patch does. I was wondering if
that's intentional OR if the patch below does it right?

===
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
index 7bd22a2..7be750e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_pages(struct address_space
*mapping,
{
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_SB(inode->i_sb);
- int ret;
+ int ret = 0;
long excess_nrtw = 0, desired_nrtw;

if (wbc->nr_to_write < MAX_DESIRED_PAGES_WP) {
@@ -572,7 +572,9 @@ static int f2fs_write_data_pages(struct address_space *mapping,

if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
mutex_lock(&sbi->writepages);
- ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __f2fs_writepage, mapping);
+ /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
+ if (mapping->a_ops->writepage)
+ ret = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __f2fs_writepage, mapping);
if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
mutex_unlock(&sbi->writepages);
f2fs_submit_bio(sbi, DATA, (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL));
===
Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team
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