linux-kernel - [PATCH] ovl: fix return value of ovl_fill

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:02:46 +0800
From:   Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:     Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>,
        linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ovl: fix return value of ovl_fill_super

If kcalloc() failed, the return value of ovl_fill_super() is -EINVAL,
not -ENOMEM. So this patch sets this value to -ENOMEM before calling
kcalloc(), and sets it back to -EINVAL after calling kcalloc().

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 19d31ce..1afdf77 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -754,10 +754,12 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		goto out_free_lowertmp;
 	}
 
+	err = -ENOMEM;
 	stack = kcalloc(stacklen, sizeof(struct path), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!stack)
 		goto out_free_lowertmp;
 
+	err = -EINVAL;
 	lower = lowertmp;
 	for (numlower = 0; numlower < stacklen; numlower++) {
 		err = ovl_lower_dir(lower, &stack[numlower], ufs,
-- 
2.9.3