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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2018-05-16 17:51:25 +0300
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2018-05-31 11:06:11 +0200
commit95a1c8153ad8bc99e7c4b90257f20b4f0474a9a0 (patch)
treeda1fadaf2b5e9c96cab3225e596641595f0600ad /fs/overlayfs/super.c
parent471ec5dcf4e712ea81bf431a57c98d4b67416d30 (diff)
ovl: return dentry from ovl_create_real()
Al Viro suggested to simplify callers of ovl_create_real() by returning the created dentry (or ERR_PTR) from ovl_create_real(). Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/super.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 286d36772e9c..704b37311467 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -611,9 +611,10 @@ retry:
goto retry;
}
- err = ovl_create_real(dir, work, OVL_CATTR(attr.ia_mode));
- if (err)
- goto out_dput;
+ work = ovl_create_real(dir, work, OVL_CATTR(attr.ia_mode));
+ err = PTR_ERR(work);
+ if (IS_ERR(work))
+ goto out_err;
/*
* Try to remove POSIX ACL xattrs from workdir. We are good if: