There is a typo here. We should be testing "*dentry" instead of "dentry". If "*dentry" is an ERR_PTR, it gets dereferenced in either mkdir() or create() which would cause an OOPs. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c index c3a7938..1c812e8 100644 --- a/security/inode.c +++ b/security/inode.c @@ -161,13 +161,13 @@ static int create_by_name(const char *name, mode_t mode, 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 = mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); else error = 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