From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756033Ab0DVQYn (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:24:43 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:33313 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753228Ab0DVQYk (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:24:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:24:20 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dan Carpenter , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alessio Igor Bogani , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] usb: testing the wrong variable in fs_create_by_name() Message-ID: <20100422162420.GC30730@kroah.com> References: <20100422100052.GT29647@bicker> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100422100052.GT29647@bicker> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote: > There is a typo here. We should be testing "*dentry" which was just > assigned instead of "dentry". This could result in dereferencing an > ERR_PTR inside either usbfs_mkdir() or usbfs_create(). > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Nice catch, thanks. I'll go queue this up. greg k-h