The code makes more sense here and things are just clearer.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
---
 fs/devpts/inode.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
index c59d39f2d512..43773543a783 100644
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
+++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -425,11 +425,19 @@ devpts_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int 
silent)
        set_nlink(inode, 2);
 
        s->s_root = d_make_root(inode);
-       if (s->s_root)
-               return 0;
+       if (!s->s_root) {
+               pr_err("get root dentry failed\n");
+               goto fail;
+       }
 
-       pr_err("get root dentry failed\n");
+       error = mknod_ptmx(s);
+       if (error)
+               goto fail_dput;
 
+       return 0;
+fail_dput:
+       dput(s->s_root);
+       s->s_root = NULL;
 fail:
        return error;
 }
@@ -456,11 +464,6 @@ static struct dentry *devpts_mount(struct file_system_type 
*fs_type,
                        goto out_undo_sget;
                s->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
        }
-
-       error = mknod_ptmx(s);
-       if (error)
-               goto out_undo_sget;
-
        return dget(s->s_root);
 
 out_undo_sget:
-- 
2.8.3

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