alpha: PTR_ERR overwrites -EINVAL in syscall osf_mount

The initial -EINVAL value is overwritten by `retval = PTR_ERR(name)'.  If
this isn't an error pointer and typenr is not 1, 6 or 9, then this retval,
a pointer cast to a long, is returned.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
index 62619f25132..53c213f70fc 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ osf_procfs_mount(char *dirname, struct procfs_args __user *args, int flags)
 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path,
                 int, flag, void __user *, data)
 {
-        int retval = -EINVAL;
+        int retval;
         char *name;
 
         name = getname(path);
@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path,
                 retval = osf_procfs_mount(name, data, flag);
                 break;
         default:
+                retval = -EINVAL;
                 printk("osf_mount(%ld, %x)\n", typenr, flag);
         }
         putname(name);