src/patches/suse-2.6.27.31/patches.fixes/ocfs2-Fix-checking-of-return-value-of-new_inode.patch

   1 From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
   2 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:23:53 +0200
   3 Subject: ocfs2: Fix checking of return value of new_inode()
   4
   5 new_inode() does not return ERR_PTR() but NULL in case of failure. Correct
   6 checking of the return value.
   7
   8 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
   9 Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
  10 Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
  11 ---
  12  fs/ocfs2/namei.c |    4 ++--
  13  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  14
  15 Index: linux-2.6.27-ocfs2/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
  16 ===================================================================
  17 --- linux-2.6.27-ocfs2.orig/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
  18 +++ linux-2.6.27-ocfs2/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
  19 @@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ static int ocfs2_mknod_locked(struct ocf
  20         }
  21
  22         inode = new_inode(dir->i_sb);
  23 -       if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
  24 -               status = PTR_ERR(inode);
  25 +       if (!inode) {
  26 +               status = -ENOMEM;
  27                 mlog(ML_ERROR, "new_inode failed!\n");
  28                 goto leave;
  29         }