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author | Binyi Han <dantengknight@gmail.com> | 2022-09-04 09:46:47 +0200 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-09-12 01:22:31 +0200 |
commit | 4eb5bbde3ccb710d3b85bfb13466612e56393369 (patch) | |
tree | 8c2e0c17aba9d747a01b4e8777aa9850e60eb8a6 /mm/secretmem.c | |
parent | vmscan: check folio_test_private(), not folio_get_private() (diff) | |
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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.c | 2 |
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; |