The patch titled debugfs: check return value correctly has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is debugfs-check-return-value-correctly.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: debugfs: check return value correctly From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> The return value is stored in "*dentry", not in "dentry". Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/debugfs/inode.c~debugfs-check-return-value-correctly fs/debugfs/inode.c --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c~debugfs-check-return-value-correctly +++ a/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -147,13 +147,13 @@ static int debugfs_create_by_name(const *dentry = NULL; mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name)); - if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) { + if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) { if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR) error = debugfs_mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); else error = debugfs_create(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); } else - error = PTR_ERR(dentry); + error = PTR_ERR(*dentry); mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); return error; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch debugfs-check-return-value-correctly.patch jffs2-use-rb_first-and-rb_last-cleanup.patch git-ocfs2.patch git-cryptodev.patch bit-revese-library.patch crc32-replace-bitreverse-by-bitrev32.patch video-use-bitrev8.patch net-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-hisax-use-bitrev8.patch atm-ambassador-use-bitrev8.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html