rom this NULL-ed rb-tree node in this line: fname = rb_entry(info->curr_node, struct fname, rb_hash); The patch itself initializes the err variable in htree_dirblock_to_tree() to avoid usage mistakes by the called functions, and also fix ext4_getblk() to return a initialized 'err' variable when ext4_map_blocks() fails a lookup. Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"