Commit 8a545f18 authored Jul 13, 2016 by Dan Carpenter Committed by Richard Weinberger Aug 04, 2016

hostfs: Freeing an ERR_PTR in hostfs_fill_sb_common()



We can't pass error pointers to kfree() or it causes an oops.

Fixes: 52b209f7 ('get rid of hostfs_read_inode()')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

parent 915eed20

fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c

+4 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -959,9 +959,10 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct super_block sb, void d, int silent)

		if (S_ISLNK(root_inode->i_mode)) {
		char *name = follow_link(host_root_path);
		if (IS_ERR(name))
		if (IS_ERR(name)) {
		err = PTR_ERR(name);
		else
		goto out_put;
		}
		err = read_name(root_inode, name);
		kfree(name);
		if (err)