From: Dmitriy Monakhov sb_read may return NULL, let's explicitly check it. Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/udf/super.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/udf/super.c~udf-possible-null-pointer-dereference-while-load_partition fs/udf/super.c --- a/fs/udf/super.c~udf-possible-null-pointer-dereference-while-load_partition +++ a/fs/udf/super.c @@ -1405,6 +1405,8 @@ udf_load_partition(struct super_block *s pos = udf_block_map(UDF_SB_VAT(sb), 0); bh = sb_bread(sb, pos); + if (!bh) + return 1; UDF_SB_TYPEVIRT(sb,i).s_start_offset = le16_to_cpu(((struct virtualAllocationTable20 *)bh->b_data + udf_ext0_offset(UDF_SB_VAT(sb)))->lengthHeader) + udf_ext0_offset(UDF_SB_VAT(sb)); _