We can't pass error pointers to kfree() or it causes an oops.

Fixes: 52b209f7b848 ('get rid of hostfs_read_inode()')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
index 5c57654..90e46cd 100644
--- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
+++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
@@ -959,10 +959,11 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct super_block *sb, 
void *d, int silent)
 
        if (S_ISLNK(root_inode->i_mode)) {
                char *name = follow_link(host_root_path);
-               if (IS_ERR(name))
+               if (IS_ERR(name)) {
                        err = PTR_ERR(name);
-               else
-                       err = read_name(root_inode, name);
+                       goto out_put;
+               }
+               err = read_name(root_inode, name);
                kfree(name);
                if (err)
                        goto out_put;

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