From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com
[ Upstream commit 09226e8303beeec10f2ff844d2e46d1371dc58e0 ]
None of the callers are expecting NULL returns from nfs_get_client() so this code will lead to an Oops. It's better to return an error pointer. I expect that this is dead code so hopefully no one is affected.
Fixes: 31434f496abb ("nfs: check hostname in nfs_get_client") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/nfs/client.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c index 4b8cc93913f7..723d425796cc 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/client.c +++ b/fs/nfs/client.c @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ struct nfs_client *nfs_get_client(const struct nfs_client_initdata *cl_init)
if (cl_init->hostname == NULL) { WARN_ON(1); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); }
/* see if the client already exists */