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| author | Binyi Han <dantengknight@gmail.com> | 2022-09-04 00:46:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-10-05 10:39:39 +0200 |
| commit | e858f7ac7395c6016065d2bdaba469013c3313e0 (patch) | |
| tree | d38c874db924c044b35fe49fc68f208dbd03dff0 /mm | |
| parent | d75ce115625ebd09c98e2309f0643654ff9a79b0 (diff) | |
mm: fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR
commit 4eb5bbde3ccb710d3b85bfb13466612e56393369 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -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 14f49c0aa66e..d1986ce2e7c7 100644 --- a/mm/secretmem.c +++ b/mm/secretmem.c @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ 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; |