The patch titled
fs/devpts/inode.c: correctly check d_alloc_name() return code in devpts_pty_new()
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fs-devpts-inodec-correctly-check-d_alloc_name-return-code-in-devpts_pty_new.patch
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Subject: fs/devpts/inode.c: correctly check d_alloc_name() return code in devpts_pty_new()
From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
d_alloc_name return NULL in case error, but we expect errno in
devpts_pty_new.
Addresses http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1758
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/devpts/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/devpts/inode.c~fs-devpts-inodec-correctly-check-d_alloc_name-return-code-in-devpts_pty_new fs/devpts/inode.c
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c~fs-devpts-inodec-correctly-check-d_alloc_name-return-code-in-devpts_pty_new
+++ a/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ int devpts_pty_new(struct inode *ptmx_in
mutex_lock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
dentry = d_alloc_name(root, s);
- if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+ if (dentry) {
d_add(dentry, inode);
fsnotify_create(root->d_inode, dentry);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from avagin@xxxxxxxxxx are
fs-devpts-inodec-correctly-check-d_alloc_name-return-code-in-devpts_pty_new.patch
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