There is a typo here. We should be testing "*dentry" which was just assigned instead of "dentry". This could result in dereferencing an ERR_PTR inside either usbfs_mkdir() or usbfs_create(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/inode.c b/drivers/usb/core/inode.c index 97b40ce..4a6366a 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/inode.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/inode.c @@ -515,13 +515,13 @@ static int fs_create_by_name (const char *name, mode_t mode, *dentry = NULL; mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name)); - if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) { + if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) { if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR) error = usbfs_mkdir (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); else error = usbfs_create (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); } else - error = PTR_ERR(dentry); + error = PTR_ERR(*dentry); mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); return error; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html