From: Dmitriy Monakhov sb_read may return NULL, let's explicitly check it. If so free new bitmap blocks array, after this we may safely exit as it done above during bitmap allocation. Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/reiserfs/resize.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/reiserfs/resize.c~reiserfs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-during-resize fs/reiserfs/resize.c --- a/fs/reiserfs/resize.c~reiserfs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-during-resize +++ a/fs/reiserfs/resize.c @@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ int reiserfs_resize(struct super_block * /* don't use read_bitmap_block since it will cache * the uninitialized bitmap */ bh = sb_bread(s, i * s->s_blocksize * 8); + if (!bh) { + vfree(bitmap); + return -EIO; + } memset(bh->b_data, 0, sb_blocksize(sb)); reiserfs_test_and_set_le_bit(0, bh->b_data); reiserfs_cache_bitmap_metadata(s, bh, bitmap + i); _