We accidentally forgot to set the error code on this path. It means we
return NULL instead of an error pointer. I looked through a bunch of
callers and I don't think it really causes a big issue, but the
documentation says we're supposed to return error pointers here.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
inode_lock(dir);
dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
- if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+ if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+ error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
goto fail_lock;
+ }
if (d_really_is_positive(dentry)) {
error = -EEXIST;