[PATCH v6 2/2] hfs: return ERR_PTR() from hfs_iget()

From: yangguikun

Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 06:23:59 EST


hfs_iget() returns NULL both for corrupted catalog records and for
allocation failures, so the callers cannot tell them apart: hfs_lookup()
reports every case as -EACCES and hfs_fill_super() as -EINVAL.

Return ERR_PTR(-EIO) for the corruption cases and ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) when
the inode cannot be allocated, the same way minix_iget() does, and let
the callers propagate the error.

Suggested-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: yangguikun <yangguikun19@xxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/hfs/dir.c b/fs/hfs/dir.c
index e1f1fb3..0834d40 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/dir.c
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ static struct dentry *hfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
inode = ERR_PTR(res);
} else {
inode = hfs_iget(dir->i_sb, &fd.search_key->cat, &rec);
- if (!inode)
- inode = ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
}
hfs_find_exit(&fd);
return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
diff --git a/fs/hfs/inode.c b/fs/hfs/inode.c
index a66de7b..d28fbbd 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/inode.c
@@ -484,15 +484,6 @@ struct inode *hfs_system_iget(struct super_block *sb, u32 cnid)
return inode;
}

-/*
- * __hfs_iget()
- *
- * Given the MDB for a HFS filesystem, a 'key' and an 'entry' in
- * the catalog B-tree and the 'type' of the desired file return the
- * inode for that file/directory or NULL. Note that 'type' indicates
- * whether we want the actual file or directory, or the corresponding
- * metadata (AppleDouble header file or CAP metadata file).
- */
struct inode *hfs_iget(struct super_block *sb, struct hfs_cat_key *key, hfs_cat_rec *rec)
{
struct hfs_iget_data data = { key, rec };
@@ -507,15 +498,17 @@ struct inode *hfs_iget(struct super_block *sb, struct hfs_cat_key *key, hfs_cat_
cnid = be32_to_cpu(rec->file.FlNum);
break;
default:
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
}

if (!hfs_is_valid_cnid(cnid, rec->type) ||
hfs_is_system_reserved_cnid(cnid))
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EIO);

inode = iget5_locked(sb, cnid, hfs_test_inode, hfs_read_inode, &data);
- if (inode && (inode_state_read_once(inode) & I_NEW))
+ if (!inode)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ if (inode_state_read_once(inode) & I_NEW)
unlock_new_inode(inode);
return inode;
}
diff --git a/fs/hfs/super.c b/fs/hfs/super.c
index 5e6d66f..d201502 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/super.c
@@ -378,8 +378,10 @@ static int hfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
res = -EINVAL;
root_inode = hfs_iget(sb, &fd.search_key->cat, &rec);
hfs_find_exit(&fd);
- if (!root_inode)
+ if (IS_ERR(root_inode)) {
+ res = PTR_ERR(root_inode);
goto bail_no_root;
+ }

if (is_bad_inode(root_inode)) {
iput(root_inode);
--
2.53.0.windows.1