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(Silly?) bug in ext2/namei.c, 2.2.x, 2.4.x

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PATCH 1/1 (Silly?) bug in ext2/namei.c, 2.2.x, 2.4.x

Hi!

I think that this is a bug. The buffer is always released except in this case.

Bye.

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*** /usr/src/linux-2.4.1/fs/ext2/namei.c Tue Dec 12 16:48:22 2000
--- namei.c.new Thu Feb 15 20:42:45 2001
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*** 235,240 ****
--- 235,241 ----

                                return retval;
                        if (dir->i_size <= offset) {
                                if (dir->i_size == 0) {
+                                       brelse(bh);
                                        return -ENOENT;
                                }

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