It looks like there is a typo here where return "rc" which is "success" instead of PTR_ERR(tlink) which is a negative error code. I have also removed the unneeded initialization so that GCC has a chance to warn about this sort of thing next time. Fixes: 25c7f41e9234 ('CIFS: Migrate to shared superblock model') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This is a static checker warning and I'm not certain this is the correct fix. Please review this one carefully. diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 20d75b8..a5704e1 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -2730,14 +2730,14 @@ cifs_match_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data) struct cifs_ses *ses; struct cifs_tcon *tcon; struct tcon_link *tlink; - int rc = 0; + int rc; spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(sb); tlink = cifs_get_tlink(cifs_sb_master_tlink(cifs_sb)); if (IS_ERR(tlink)) { spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); - return rc; + return PTR_ERR(tlink); } tcon = tlink_tcon(tlink); ses = tcon->ses; -- 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