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Commit 027f14f5 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: don't try to processed freed blocks until mballoc is initialized

If we try to make any changes via the journal between when the journal
is initialized, but before the multi-block allocated is initialized,
we will end up deferencing a NULL pointer when the journal commit
callback function calls ext4_process_freed_data().

The proximate cause of this failure was commit 2d01ddc8

 ("ext4:
save error info to sb through journal if available") since file system
corruption problems detected before the call to ext4_mb_init() would
result in a journal commit before we aborted the mount of the file
system.... and we would then trigger the NULL pointer deref.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YAm8qH/0oo2ofSMR@mit.edu
Reported-by: default avatarMurphy Zhou <jencce.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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