5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Wang Ming machel@vivo.com
[ Upstream commit 0d5a4f8f775ff990142cdc810a84eae078589d27 ]
The d_hash_and_lookup() function returns error pointers or NULL. Most incorrect error checks were fixed, but the one in int path_pts() was forgotten.
Fixes: eedf265aa003 ("devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem.") Signed-off-by: Wang Ming machel@vivo.com Message-Id: 20230713120555.7025-1-machel@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 21988d22399f9..f6708ab8ec7ed 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2603,7 +2603,7 @@ int path_pts(struct path *path) this.name = "pts"; this.len = 3; child = d_hash_and_lookup(parent, &this); - if (!child) + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(child)) return -ENOENT;
path->dentry = child;