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alpha: PTR_ERR overwrites -EINVAL in syscall osf_mount

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The initial -EINVAL value is overwritten by `retval = PTR_ERR(name)'.  If
this isn't an error pointer and typenr is not 1, 6 or 9, then this retval,
a pointer cast to a long, is returned.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roel Kluin 2010-03-05 13:42:28 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6822190882
commit 77079dbec7
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
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@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ osf_procfs_mount(char *dirname, struct procfs_args __user *args, int flags)
SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path,
int, flag, void __user *, data)
{
int retval = -EINVAL;
int retval;
char *name;
name = getname(path);
@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path,
retval = osf_procfs_mount(name, data, flag);
break;
default:
retval = -EINVAL;
printk("osf_mount(%ld, %x)\n", typenr, flag);
}
putname(name);