From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:23:53 +0200 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix checking of return value of new_inode() In-Reply-To: y References: y Message-ID: <12245234434014-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com new_inode() does not return ERR_PTR() but NULL in case of failure. Correct checking of the return value. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- fs/ocfs2/namei.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c index d5d808f..0372ef0 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c @@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ static int ocfs2_mknod_locked(struct ocfs2_super *osb, } inode = new_inode(dir->i_sb); - if (IS_ERR(inode)) { - status = PTR_ERR(inode); + if (!inode) { + status = -ENOMEM; mlog(ML_ERROR, "new_inode failed!\n"); goto leave; } -- 1.5.2.4