4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ [ Upstream commit f585b283e3f025754c45bbe7533fc6e5c4643700 ] In autofs_fill_super() on error of get inode/make root dentry the return should be ENOMEM as this is the only failure case of the called functions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154725123240.11260.796773942606871359.stgit@pluto-themaw-net Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/autofs/inode.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/autofs/inode.c b/fs/autofs/inode.c index 846c052569dd..3c14a8e45ffb 100644 --- a/fs/autofs/inode.c +++ b/fs/autofs/inode.c @@ -255,8 +255,10 @@ int autofs_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent) } root_inode = autofs_get_inode(s, S_IFDIR | 0755); root = d_make_root(root_inode); - if (!root) + if (!root) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto fail_ino; + } pipe = NULL; root->d_fsdata = ino; -- 2.19.1