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| author | Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> | 2010-04-22 12:00:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-04-30 09:25:09 -0700 |
| commit | fa7fe7af146a7b613e36a311eefbbfb5555325d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 354dc1cf91089c473d9e236518d97cf84adb1bf7 /drivers/usb | |
| parent | 1d0f11b39728099100a768cab2d7a90389017e75 (diff) | |
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USB: fix testing the wrong variable in fs_create_by_name()
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 <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/core/inode.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/inode.c b/drivers/usb/core/inode.c index 97b40ce133f0..4a6366a42129 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/inode.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/inode.c @@ -515,13 +515,13 @@ static int fs_create_by_name (const char *name, mode_t mode, *dentry = NULL; mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name)); - if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) { + if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) { if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR) error = usbfs_mkdir (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); else error = usbfs_create (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); } else - error = PTR_ERR(dentry); + error = PTR_ERR(*dentry); mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); return error; |