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-rw-r--r--fs/reiserfs/xattr.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index cf949646dd57..628075ca82c1 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -123,7 +123,9 @@ static struct dentry *open_xa_root(struct super_block *sb, int flags)
mutex_lock_nested(&privroot->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_XATTR);
xaroot = dget(REISERFS_SB(sb)->xattr_root);
- if (!xaroot->d_inode) {
+ if (!xaroot)
+ xaroot = ERR_PTR(-ENODATA);
+ else if (!xaroot->d_inode) {
int err = -ENODATA;
if (xattr_may_create(flags))
err = xattr_mkdir(privroot->d_inode, xaroot, 0700);