Quoting Dan Carpenter (dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx):
> 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>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
thanks,
-serge
> 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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