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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alpha: PTR_ERR overwrites -EINVAL in syscall osf_mount
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:16:34 -0800
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To: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On 02/03/2010 07:49 AM, Roel Kluin wrote:
> The initial -EINVAL value is overwritten by `retval = PTR_ERR(name)'.
> If this isn't an error pointer and typenr is not 1, 6 or 9, then
> this retval, a pointer cast to a long, is returned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin<roel.kluin@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>


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