It needs to check return values when functions return value. Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni <xni@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mdopen.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mdopen.c b/mdopen.c index eaa59b5925af..c9fda131558b 100644 --- a/mdopen.c +++ b/mdopen.c @@ -406,7 +406,11 @@ int create_mddev(char *dev, char *name, int autof, int trustworthy, perror("chown"); if (chmod(devname, ci->mode)) perror("chmod"); - stat(devname, &stb); + if (stat(devname, &stb) < 0) { + pr_err("failed to stat %s\n", + devname); + return -1; + } add_dev(devname, &stb, 0, NULL); } if (use_mdp == 1) -- 2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)