From: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> I was treating a NULL return value as an error, but this function will instead return an ERR_PTR(). Now that I'm checking if the function returns an error, I should also pass the error up the call stack. Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c | 4 ++-- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 15 ++++----------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c index 017b4b0..a8aafc6 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c @@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ struct rpc_clnt *nfs4_create_sec_client(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, struct inode *ino return clone; auth = rpcauth_create(flavor, clone); - if (!auth) { + if (IS_ERR(auth)) { rpc_shutdown_client(clone); - clone = ERR_PTR(-EIO); + clone = ERR_CAST(auth); } return clone; diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index 5a7b372..f817587 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -2356,17 +2356,10 @@ out: static int nfs4_lookup_root_sec(struct nfs_server *server, struct nfs_fh *fhandle, struct nfs_fsinfo *info, rpc_authflavor_t flavor) { - struct rpc_auth *auth; - int ret; - - auth = rpcauth_create(flavor, server->client); - if (!auth) { - ret = -EIO; - goto out; - } - ret = nfs4_lookup_root(server, fhandle, info); -out: - return ret; + struct rpc_auth *auth = rpcauth_create(flavor, server->client); + if (IS_ERR(auth)) + return PTR_ERR(auth); + return nfs4_lookup_root(server, fhandle, info); } static int nfs4_find_root_sec(struct nfs_server *server, struct nfs_fh *fhandle, -- 1.7.11.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html