linux-kernel - [PATCH] binfmt_elf: fix documented return value for load_elf

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Message-ID: <2359389.EDbqzprbEW@mobilepool36.emlix.com>
Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:43:01 +0200
From:   Rolf Eike Beer <eb@...ix.com>
To:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: fix documented return value for load_elf_phdrs()

This function has never returned anything but a plain NULL.

Fixes: 6a8d38945cf4 ("binfmt_elf: Hoist ELF program header loading to a function")
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@...ix.com>
---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 63c7ebb0da89..cfd5f7ad019d 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ static unsigned long maximum_alignment(struct elf_phdr *cmds, int nr)
  *
  * Loads ELF program headers from the binary file elf_file, which has the ELF
  * header pointed to by elf_ex, into a newly allocated array. The caller is
- * responsible for freeing the allocated data. Returns an ERR_PTR upon failure.
+ * responsible for freeing the allocated data. Returns NULL upon failure.
  */
 static struct elf_phdr *load_elf_phdrs(const struct elfhdr *elf_ex,
 				       struct file *elf_file)
-- 
2.37.3

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