The patch I posted yesterday didn't even compile (missing "&" in memset)
Thanks to Andy Price for checking and reporting that.

Here's the corrected version:

>From 152dbe7a8961cebf355b2f648f813e0c74b5e25f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:54:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] hexedit: avoid NULL dereference upon failed malloc

* gfs2/edit/hexedit.c (display_indirect): Avoid unchecked malloc
by declaring more_indir on the stack.
---
 gfs2/edit/hexedit.c |   14 ++++++--------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gfs2/edit/hexedit.c b/gfs2/edit/hexedit.c
index e8c6030..eef2a7a 100644
--- a/gfs2/edit/hexedit.c
+++ b/gfs2/edit/hexedit.c
@@ -1477,13 +1477,12 @@ static int display_indirect(struct iinfo *ind, int 
indblocks, int level, uint64_
                        file_offset = 0;
                if (!termlines && ((level + 1 < di.di_height) ||
                                   (S_ISDIR(di.di_mode) && !level))) {
-                       struct iinfo *more_indir;
                        int more_ind;
                        char *tmpbuf;
                        
-                       more_indir = malloc(sizeof(struct iinfo));
                        tmpbuf = malloc(sbd.bsize);
                        if (tmpbuf) {
+                               struct iinfo more_indir;
                                lseek(sbd.device_fd,
                                      ind->ii[pndx].block * sbd.bsize,
                                      SEEK_SET);
@@ -1498,20 +1497,19 @@ static int display_indirect(struct iinfo *ind, int 
indblocks, int level, uint64_
                                                (unsigned long 
long)ind->ii[pndx].block);
                                        exit(-1);
                                }
-                               memset(more_indir, 0, sizeof(struct iinfo));
+                               memset(&more_indir, 0, sizeof(struct iinfo));
                                if (S_ISDIR(di.di_mode)) {
-                                       do_leaf_extended(tmpbuf, more_indir);
-                                       display_leaf(more_indir);
+                                       do_leaf_extended(tmpbuf, &more_indir);
+                                       display_leaf(&more_indir);
                                } else {
                                        more_ind = do_indirect_extended(tmpbuf,
-                                                                       
more_indir);
-                                       display_indirect(more_indir,
+                                                                       
&more_indir);
+                                       display_indirect(&more_indir,
                                                         more_ind, level + 1,
                                                         file_offset);
                                }
                                free(tmpbuf);
                        }
-                       free(more_indir);
                }
                print_entry_ndx = pndx; /* restore after recursion */
                eol(0);
-- 
1.6.3.2.406.gd6a466

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