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* [patch] block-dev: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
@ 2016-03-08 12:05 Dan Carpenter
  2016-03-15  7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2016-03-08 12:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexander Viro, Shaohua Li; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

This should be an IS_ERR() check.  mount_pseudo() returns error pointers
and this function should return the error pointer to its caller as well.

Fixes: 3684aa7099e0 ('block-dev: enable writeback cgroup support')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 3172c4e..2de969e 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static struct dentry *bd_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 {
 	struct dentry *dent;
 	dent = mount_pseudo(fs_type, "bdev:", &bdev_sops, NULL, BDEVFS_MAGIC);
-	if (dent)
+	if (!IS_ERR(dent))
 		dent->d_sb->s_iflags |= SB_I_CGROUPWB;
 	return dent;
 }

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* Re: [patch] block-dev: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
  2016-03-08 12:05 [patch] block-dev: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() Dan Carpenter
@ 2016-03-15  7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2016-03-15  7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter
  Cc: Alexander Viro, Shaohua Li, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel,
	kernel-janitors

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 03:05:46PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This should be an IS_ERR() check.  mount_pseudo() returns error pointers
> and this function should return the error pointer to its caller as well.
> 
> Fixes: 3684aa7099e0 ('block-dev: enable writeback cgroup support')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Looks fine.  Would be much nicer to simply pass possible flags as an
argument to mount_pseudo to avoid this whole dance..

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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