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authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2010-04-22 06:00:52 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-04-30 12:25:09 -0400
commitfa7fe7af146a7b613e36a311eefbbfb5555325d1 (patch)
tree354dc1cf91089c473d9e236518d97cf84adb1bf7 /drivers/usb
parent1d0f11b39728099100a768cab2d7a90389017e75 (diff)
USB: fix testing the wrong variable in fs_create_by_name()
There is a typo here. We should be testing "*dentry" which was just assigned instead of "dentry". This could result in dereferencing an ERR_PTR inside either usbfs_mkdir() or usbfs_create(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/inode.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/inode.c b/drivers/usb/core/inode.c
index 97b40ce133f0..4a6366a42129 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/inode.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/inode.c
@@ -515,13 +515,13 @@ static int fs_create_by_name (const char *name, mode_t mode,
515 *dentry = NULL; 515 *dentry = NULL;
516 mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); 516 mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
517 *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name)); 517 *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
518 if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) { 518 if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
519 if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR) 519 if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
520 error = usbfs_mkdir (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); 520 error = usbfs_mkdir (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
521 else 521 else
522 error = usbfs_create (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode); 522 error = usbfs_create (parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
523 } else 523 } else
524 error = PTR_ERR(dentry); 524 error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
525 mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); 525 mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
526 526
527 return error; 527 return error;