Re: [PATCH 1/3] apparmor: Fix return in ns_mkdir_op

From: John Johansen

Date: Sat Jun 13 2026 - 03:16:10 EST


On 5/2/26 21:12, Hongling Zeng wrote:
Return NULL instead of passing to ERR_PTR while error is zero.
Fixes smatch warning:
- security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c:1846 ns_mkdir_op() warn:
passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'

Fixes: 88d5baf69082 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *")
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

this has been pulled in to my tree

---
security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index ededaf46f3ca..1d7b1c70f22a 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -1922,7 +1922,7 @@ static struct dentry *ns_mkdir_op(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
mutex_unlock(&parent->lock);
aa_put_ns(parent);
- return ERR_PTR(error);
+ return error ? ERR_PTR(error) : NULL;
}
static int ns_rmdir_op(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)