From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: [PATCH 2/4] sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:29:07 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: , , Lucian Adrian Grijincu , Damien Millescamps , Dan Carpenter To: Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:27:51 -0800") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org When insert_header fails ensure we return the proper error value from get_subdir. In practice nothing cares, but there is no need to be sloppy. Reported-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index ebe8b30..722ec11 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -869,6 +869,7 @@ static struct ctl_dir *get_subdir(struct ctl_dir *dir, { struct ctl_table_set *set = dir->header.set; struct ctl_dir *subdir, *new = NULL; + int err; spin_lock(&sysctl_lock); subdir = find_subdir(dir, name, namelen); @@ -890,7 +891,9 @@ static struct ctl_dir *get_subdir(struct ctl_dir *dir, if (PTR_ERR(subdir) != -ENOENT) goto failed; - if (insert_header(dir, &new->header)) + err = insert_header(dir, &new->header); + subdir = ERR_PTR(err); + if (err) goto failed; subdir = new; found: -- 1.7.2.5