debugfs: check return value correctly

The return value is stored in "*dentry", not in "dentry".

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index e77676df6713..a736d44989c4 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -147,13 +147,13 @@ static int debugfs_create_by_name(const char *name, mode_t mode,
         *dentry = NULL;
         mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
         *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
-        if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+        if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
                 if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
                         error = debugfs_mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
                 else 
                         error = debugfs_create(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
         } else
-                error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
+                error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
         mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
         return error;