The bio_alloc() function can return NULL if the memory allocation fails. So we need to check for this. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
@@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ static int io_submit_init_bio(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
struct bio *bio;
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, min(nvecs, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
+ if (!bio)
+ return -ENOMEM;
bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
bio->bi_bdev = bh->b_bdev;
bio->bi_end_io = ext4_end_bio;