From 630faf81b3e61bcc90dc6d8b497800657d2752a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:53:27 -0500
Subject: cgroup: don't put ERR_PTR() into fc->root

the caller of ->get_tree() expects NULL left there on error...

Reported-by: Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut@sautereau.fr>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'kernel')

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 080561bb8a4b..ef4242e5d4bc 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -2119,11 +2119,12 @@ int cgroup_do_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
 
 		nsdentry = kernfs_node_dentry(cgrp->kn, sb);
 		dput(fc->root);
-		fc->root = nsdentry;
 		if (IS_ERR(nsdentry)) {
-			ret = PTR_ERR(nsdentry);
 			deactivate_locked_super(sb);
+			ret = PTR_ERR(nsdentry);
+			nsdentry = NULL;
 		}
+		fc->root = nsdentry;
 	}
 
 	if (!ctx->kfc.new_sb_created)
-- 
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