From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>

Since commit d1807793e1e7e502e3dc047115e9dbc3b50e4534 we dereference a NULL
pointer.  Coverity id #1432.  We set journal to NULL, and use it directly
afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 fs/jbd/journal.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/jbd/journal.c~null-dereference-in-fs-jbd-journalc fs/jbd/journal.c
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c~null-dereference-in-fs-jbd-journalc
+++ a/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ journal_t * journal_init_dev(struct bloc
 			__FUNCTION__);
 		kfree(journal);
 		journal = NULL;
+		goto out;
 	}
 	journal->j_dev = bdev;
 	journal->j_fs_dev = fs_dev;
@@ -735,7 +736,7 @@ journal_t * journal_init_dev(struct bloc
 	J_ASSERT(bh != NULL);
 	journal->j_sb_buffer = bh;
 	journal->j_superblock = (journal_superblock_t *)bh->b_data;
-
+out:
 	return journal;
 }
 
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