This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cifs: Fix inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR
to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cifs-fix-inconsistent-is_err-and-ptr_err.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 1f0cdbd9f18e25f9bdac4cefa68fc807948a597d
Author: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Feb 18 17:28:12 2021 +0800
cifs: Fix inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR
[ Upstream commit af982da9a612295a91f367469f8945c916a20dfd ]
Fix inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR in cifs_find_swn_reg(). The proper
pointer to be passed as argument to PTR_ERR() is share_name.
This bug was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Fixes: bf80e5d4259a ("cifs: Send witness register and unregister commands to userspace daemon")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Cabrero <scabrero@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c
index d35f599aa00e6..f2d730fffccb3 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static struct cifs_swn_reg *cifs_find_swn_reg(struct cifs_tcon *tcon)
if (IS_ERR(share_name)) {
int ret;
- ret = PTR_ERR(net_name);
+ ret = PTR_ERR(share_name);
cifs_dbg(VFS, "%s: failed to extract share name from target '%s': %d\n",
__func__, tcon->treeName, ret);
kfree(net_name);
