From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759688Ab3HNLwg (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Aug 2013 07:52:36 -0400 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:39640 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752168Ab3HNLwe (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Aug 2013 07:52:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:52:18 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Anton Vorontsov Cc: Colin Cross , Kees Cook , Tony Luck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch] pstore: d_alloc_name() doesn't return an ERR_PTR Message-ID: <20130814115218.GC8044@elgon.mountain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org d_alloc_name() returns NULL on error. Also I changed the error code from -ENOSPC to -ENOMEM to reflect that we were short on RAM not disk space. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c index 71bf5f4..6a4123d 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/inode.c +++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c @@ -345,9 +345,8 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id, int count, mutex_lock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex); - rc = -ENOSPC; dentry = d_alloc_name(root, name); - if (IS_ERR(dentry)) + if (!dentry) goto fail_lockedalloc; memcpy(private->data, data, size);