Commit d93e4c94 authored May 11, 2009 by Eric Paris Committed by James Morris May 12, 2009

securityfs: securityfs_remove should handle IS_ERR pointers

Both of the securityfs users (TPM and IMA) can call securityfs_remove and pass
an IS_ERR(dentry) in their failure paths. This patch handles those rather
than panicing when it tries to start deferencing some negative memory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

parent 1a62e958

security/inode.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
		{
		struct dentry *parent;

		if (!dentry)
		if (!dentry \|\| IS_ERR(dentry))
		return;

		parent = dentry->d_parent;