security: testing the wrong variable in create_by_name()

There is a typo here.  We should be testing "*dentry" instead of
"dentry".  If "*dentry" is an ERR_PTR, it gets dereferenced in either
mkdir() or create() which would cause an OOPs.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
index c3a793881d04f0c578049f986ce98cb778d71895..1c812e874504ef90e1b8748e28d6d9e73d6a5912 100644 (file)
--- a/security/inode.c
+++ b/security/inode.c
@@ -161,13 +161,13 @@ static int create_by_name(const char *name, mode_t mode,
 
        mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
        *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
-       if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+       if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
                if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
                        error = mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
                else
                        error = create(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
        } else
-               error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
+               error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
        mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
        return error;