We accidentally forgot to set the error code on this path. It means we
return NULL instead of an error pointer. I looked through a bunch of
callers and I don't think it really causes a big issue, but the
documentation says we're supposed to return error pointers here.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index 853c2ec8e0c9..2caeb748070c 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -248,8 +248,10 @@ static struct dentry *aafs_create(const char *name, umode_t mode,
inode_lock(dir);
dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
- if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+ if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+ error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
goto fail_lock;
+ }
if (d_really_is_positive(dentry)) {
error = -EEXIST;
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