linux-ext4 - [patch] ext4: using PTR_ERR() on the wrong variable in ext4_ext

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Message-ID: <20120126061406.GB15856@elgon.mountain>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:14:06 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] ext4: using PTR_ERR() on the wrong variable in
 ext4_ext_migrate()

"inode" is a valid pointer here.  "tmp_inode" was intended.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
index e7d6bb0..f39f80f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
 	tmp_inode = ext4_new_inode(handle, inode->i_sb->s_root->d_inode,
 				   S_IFREG, NULL, goal, owner);
 	if (IS_ERR(tmp_inode)) {
-		retval = PTR_ERR(inode);
+		retval = PTR_ERR(tmp_inode);
 		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 		return retval;
 	}
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