[patch] hostfs: freeing an ERR_PTR in hostfs_fill_sb_common()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Jul 13 2016 - 06:13:18 EST


We can't pass error pointers to kfree() or it causes an oops.

Fixes: 52b209f7b848 ('get rid of hostfs_read_inode()')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
index 5c57654..90e46cd 100644
--- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
+++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
@@ -959,10 +959,11 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct super_block *sb, void *d, int silent)

if (S_ISLNK(root_inode->i_mode)) {
char *name = follow_link(host_root_path);
- if (IS_ERR(name))
+ if (IS_ERR(name)) {
err = PTR_ERR(name);
- else
- err = read_name(root_inode, name);
+ goto out_put;
+ }
+ err = read_name(root_inode, name);
kfree(name);
if (err)
goto out_put;