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Message-Id: <1293952756-15010-58-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date:	Sun,  2 Jan 2011 02:15:53 -0500
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: [34-longterm 057/260] sysfs: checking for NULL instead of ERR_PTR

From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

commit 57f9bdac2510cd7fda58e4a111d250861eb1ebeb upstream.

d_path() returns an ERR_PTR and it doesn't return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 fs/sysfs/file.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index e222b25..0831b88 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	char *p;
 
 	p = d_path(&file->f_path, last_sysfs_file, sizeof(last_sysfs_file));
-	if (p)
+	if (!IS_ERR(p))
 		memmove(last_sysfs_file, p, strlen(p) + 1);
 
 	/* need attr_sd for attr and ops, its parent for kobj */
-- 
1.7.3.3

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