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authorRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>2010-03-05 22:42:28 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-06 20:26:27 +0100
commit77079dbec721a282bf0931385ae10d77cdbac5af (patch)
tree7e3a0e3fe650a99b3c245ae6a951c74bf07ec211 /arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
parentfrv: remove pci_dma_sync_single() and pci_dma_sync_sg() (diff)
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alpha: PTR_ERR overwrites -EINVAL in syscall osf_mount
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
index 62619f25132f..53c213f70fcb 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
@@ -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);