From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] hostfs: freeing an ERR_PTR in hostfs_fill_sb_common()
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:12:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160713101234.GG29468@mwanda> (raw)
We can't pass error pointers to kfree() or it causes an oops.
Fixes: 52b209f7b848 ('get rid of hostfs_read_inode()')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
index 5c57654..90e46cd 100644
--- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
+++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
@@ -959,10 +959,11 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct super_block *sb, void *d, int silent)
if (S_ISLNK(root_inode->i_mode)) {
char *name = follow_link(host_root_path);
- if (IS_ERR(name))
+ if (IS_ERR(name)) {
err = PTR_ERR(name);
- else
- err = read_name(root_inode, name);
+ goto out_put;
+ }
+ err = read_name(root_inode, name);
kfree(name);
if (err)
goto out_put;
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