We need to check if vfs_new_fs_context() returns an error pointer. Fixes: fd0002870b45 ("vfs: Implement a filesystem superblock creation/configuration context") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index a240e20093e0..841517520c08 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -2384,6 +2384,8 @@ static int do_remount(struct path *path, int ms_flags, int sb_flags, fc = vfs_new_fs_context(path->dentry->d_sb->s_type, path->dentry, sb_flags, MS_RMT_MASK, FS_CONTEXT_FOR_RECONFIGURE); + if (IS_ERR(fc)) + return PTR_ERR(fc); err = parse_monolithic_mount_data(fc, data, data_size); if (err < 0)