In hypfs_fill_super(), if hypfs_create_update_file() fails, sbi->update_file is left holding an error number. This is passed to hypfs_kill_super() which doesn't check for this. Fix this by not setting sbi->update_value until after we've checked for error. Fixes: 24bbb1faf3f0 ("[PATCH] s390_hypfs filesystem") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c b/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c index ccad1398abd4..b5cfcad953c2 100644 --- a/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c +++ b/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static int hypfs_show_options(struct seq_file *s, struct dentry *root) static int hypfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) { struct inode *root_inode; - struct dentry *root_dentry; + struct dentry *root_dentry, *update_file; int rc = 0; struct hypfs_sb_info *sbi; @@ -300,9 +300,10 @@ static int hypfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) rc = hypfs_diag_create_files(root_dentry); if (rc) return rc; - sbi->update_file = hypfs_create_update_file(root_dentry); - if (IS_ERR(sbi->update_file)) - return PTR_ERR(sbi->update_file); + update_file = hypfs_create_update_file(root_dentry); + if (IS_ERR(update_file)) + return PTR_ERR(update_file); + sbi->update_file = update_file; hypfs_update_update(sb); pr_info("Hypervisor filesystem mounted\n"); return 0;