From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
=============== commit 8a545f185145e3c09348cd74326268ecfc6715a3 upstream. 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 <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz> --- fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c index 04091cd05095..6a5ed1b7c116 100644 --- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c +++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c @@ -948,10 +948,11 @@ 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; -- 2.10.1