transaction to NULL, we could possibly dereference it. Proper locking requires the journal pointer (to access journal->j_list_lock), which we don't have. So we have to change the prototype of the function so that filesystem passes us the journal pointer. Also add a more detailed comment about why the function jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() does what it does and how it should be used. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing to the suspitious code. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Acked-by: Joel Becker CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com CC: mfasheh@suse.de CC: Dan Carpenter †g‰—9x