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From: Dan Carpenter on 22 Apr 2010 06:10
There is a typo here. We should be testing "*dentry" instead of
"dentry". If "*dentry" is an ERR_PTR, it gets dereferenced in either
mkdir() or create() which would cause an OOPs.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com>

diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
index c3a7938..1c812e8 100644
--- a/security/inode.c
+++ b/security/inode.c
@@ -161,13 +161,13 @@ static int create_by_name(const char *name, mode_t mode,

mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
*dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
- if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+ if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
error = mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
else
error = create(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
} else
- error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
+ error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);

return error;
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