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>
*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;