Smatch checker complains that 'secretmem_mnt' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR(). Let the function return if 'secretmem_mnt' is ERR_PTR, to avoid deferencing it. Signed-off-by: Binyi Han <dantengknight@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/secretmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c index e3e9590c6fb3..3f7154099795 100644 --- a/mm/secretmem.c +++ b/mm/secretmem.c @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static int secretmem_init(void) secretmem_mnt = kern_mount(&secretmem_fs); if (IS_ERR(secretmem_mnt)) - ret = PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt); + return PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt); /* prevent secretmem mappings from ever getting PROT_EXEC */ secretmem_mnt->mnt_flags |= MNT_NOEXEC; -- 2.25.1
