The initial -EINVAL value is overwritten by `retval = PTR_ERR(name)'. If this isn't an error pointer and typenr is not 1, 6 or 9, then this retval, a pointer cast to a long, is returned. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx> --- Was this intended? Not sure whether this can occur, found by code analysis. diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c index 62619f2..53c213f 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ osf_procfs_mount(char *dirname, struct procfs_args __user *args, int flags) SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path, int, flag, void __user *, data) { - int retval = -EINVAL; + int retval; char *name; name = getname(path); @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path, retval = osf_procfs_mount(name, data, flag); break; default: + retval = -EINVAL; printk("osf_mount(%ld, %x)\n", typenr, flag); } putname(name); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html