The d_hash_and_lookup() function returns either an error pointer or NULL. It might be more appropriate to check error using IS_ERR_OR_NULL(). Fixes: b7ade38165ca ("sunrpc: fixed rollback in rpc_gssd_dummy_populate()") Signed-off-by: Yan Zhen <yanzhen@xxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - Providing a "fixes" tag blaming the commit. net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c index 910a5d850d04..fd03dd46b1f2 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c @@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(struct dentry *root, struct rpc_pipe *pipe_data) /* We should never get this far if "gssd" doesn't exist */ gssd_dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(root, &q); - if (!gssd_dentry) + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(gssd_dentry)) return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); ret = rpc_populate(gssd_dentry, gssd_dummy_clnt_dir, 0, 1, NULL); @@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(struct dentry *root, struct rpc_pipe *pipe_data) q.name = gssd_dummy_clnt_dir[0].name; q.len = strlen(gssd_dummy_clnt_dir[0].name); clnt_dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(gssd_dentry, &q); - if (!clnt_dentry) { + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(clnt_dentry)) { __rpc_depopulate(gssd_dentry, gssd_dummy_clnt_dir, 0, 1); pipe_dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); goto out; -- 2.34.1