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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] fs/sysv: dereferencing ERR_PTR()
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:30:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100421103032.GB29647@bicker> (raw)

I moved the dir_put_page() inside the if condition so we don't dereference
"page", if it's an ERR_PTR().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/fs/sysv/dir.c b/fs/sysv/dir.c
index 4e50286..1dabed2 100644
--- a/fs/sysv/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysv/dir.c
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ struct sysv_dir_entry *sysv_find_entry(struct dentry *dentry, struct page **res_
 							name, de->name))
 					goto found;
 			}
+			dir_put_page(page);
 		}
-		dir_put_page(page);
 
 		if (++n >= npages)
 			n = 0;

             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-21 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-21 10:30 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-04-22 10:29 ` [patch] fs/sysv: dereferencing ERR_PTR() Christoph Hellwig

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