From 8321cf2596d283821acc466377c2b85bcd3422b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 22:43:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fs: btrfs: volumes.c: Fix for possible null pointer
 dereference

There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.

Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 7d725a9ce6708..ffeed6d6326fe 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -1690,11 +1690,12 @@ int btrfs_rm_device(struct btrfs_root *root, char *device_path)
 		struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices;
 		fs_devices = root->fs_info->fs_devices;
 		while (fs_devices) {
-			if (fs_devices->seed == cur_devices)
+			if (fs_devices->seed == cur_devices) {
+				fs_devices->seed = cur_devices->seed;
 				break;
+			}
 			fs_devices = fs_devices->seed;
 		}
-		fs_devices->seed = cur_devices->seed;
 		cur_devices->seed = NULL;
 		lock_chunks(root);
 		__btrfs_close_devices(cur_devices);
-- 
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