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* [patch] Btrfs: kmalloc() doesn't return an ERR_PTR
@ 2014-03-28  8:06 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2014-03-28  8:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chris Mason, Hugo Mills; +Cc: Josef Bacik, linux-btrfs, kernel-janitors

The error handling was copy and pasted from memdup_user().  It should be
checking for NULL obviously.

Fixes: abccd00f8af2 ('btrfs: Fix 32/64-bit problem with BTRFS_SET_RECEIVED_SUBVOL ioctl')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 0401397..27d551c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -4531,9 +4531,8 @@ static long btrfs_ioctl_set_received_subvol_32(struct file *file,
 	}
 
 	args64 = kmalloc(sizeof(*args64), GFP_NOFS);
-	if (IS_ERR(args64)) {
-		ret = PTR_ERR(args64);
-		args64 = NULL;
+	if (!args64) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 

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