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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2017-07-13 10:39:20 +0300
committerJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>2017-09-22 13:00:57 -0700
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apparmor: Fix an error code in aafs_create()
We accidentally forgot to set the error code on this path. It means we return NULL instead of an error pointer. I looked through a bunch of callers and I don't think it really causes a big issue, but the documentation says we're supposed to return error pointers here. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index 853c2ec8e0c9..2caeb748070c 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -248,8 +248,10 @@ static struct dentry *aafs_create(const char *name, umode_t mode,
inode_lock(dir);
dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
- if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+ if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+ error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
goto fail_lock;
+ }
if (d_really_is_positive(dentry)) {
error = -EEXIST;