From: Shen Feng When the directory fs/ext4 is not correctly created under proc, the entry under this directory should not be created. Signed-off-by: Shen Feng Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/ext4/mballoc.c~ext4-error-proc-entry-creation-when-the-fs-ext4-is-not-correctly-created fs/ext4/mballoc.c --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c~ext4-error-proc-entry-creation-when-the-fs-ext4-is-not-correctly-created +++ a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2645,6 +2645,10 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_per_dev_proc(str struct proc_dir_entry *proc; char devname[64]; + if (proc_root_ext4 == NULL) { + sbi->s_mb_proc = NULL; + return -EINVAL; + } bdevname(sb->s_bdev, devname); sbi->s_mb_proc = proc_mkdir(devname, proc_root_ext4); _