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authorBinyi Han <dantengknight@gmail.com>2022-09-04 00:46:47 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-09-11 16:22:31 -0700
commit4eb5bbde3ccb710d3b85bfb13466612e56393369 (patch)
tree8c2e0c17aba9d747a01b4e8777aa9850e60eb8a6 /mm/secretmem.c
parent36a3b14b5febdaf0e7f70c4ca6f62c8ea75fabfe (diff)
mm: fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR
Smatch checker complains that 'secretmem_mnt' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR(). Let the function return if 'secretmem_mnt' is ERR_PTR, to avoid deferencing it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220904074647.GA64291@cloud-MacBookPro Fixes: 1507f51255c9f ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas") Signed-off-by: Binyi Han <dantengknight@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foudation.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org> Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/secretmem.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/secretmem.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c
index e3e9590c6fb3..3f7154099795 100644
--- a/mm/secretmem.c
+++ b/mm/secretmem.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static int secretmem_init(void)
secretmem_mnt = kern_mount(&secretmem_fs);
if (IS_ERR(secretmem_mnt))
- ret = PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt);
+ return PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt);
/* prevent secretmem mappings from ever getting PROT_EXEC */
secretmem_mnt->mnt_flags |= MNT_NOEXEC;