Obviously, the error variable detection of the if statement is for the mprotect callback function, so it is also put into the scope of calling callbck. Reported-by: Jia Zhang <zhang.jia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mprotect.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index ab709023e9aa..94188df1ee55 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -617,10 +617,11 @@ static int do_mprotect_pkey(unsigned long start, size_t len, if (tmp > end) tmp = end; - if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->mprotect) + if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->mprotect) { error = vma->vm_ops->mprotect(vma, nstart, tmp, newflags); - if (error) - goto out; + if (error) + goto out; + } error = mprotect_fixup(vma, &prev, nstart, tmp, newflags); if (error) -- 2.19.1.3.ge56e4f7