[PATCH] reiserfs: fix potential (unlikely) oops in reiserfs_get_acl

This fixes a potential oops if there is an error reported by
posix_acl_from_disk().  This is mostly theoretical due to the use of
magics and checksums in xattrs, but is still possible.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c
index 43de3ba83332..ab8894c3b9e5 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c
@@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ struct posix_acl *reiserfs_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type)
                 acl = ERR_PTR(retval);
         } else {
                 acl = posix_acl_from_disk(value, retval);
-                *p_acl = posix_acl_dup(acl);
+                if (!IS_ERR(acl))
+                        *p_acl = posix_acl_dup(acl);
         }
 
         kfree(value);