Commit 0d0d1107 authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi Committed by Steven Whitehouse
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GFS2: d_splice_alias() can't return error 



unless it was given an IS_ERR(inode), which isn't the case here.  So clean
up the unnecessary error handling in gfs2_create_inode().

This paves the way for real fixes (hence the stable Cc).

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
parent 272b98c6

fs/gfs2/inode.c

+1 −3
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, 
	if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {

		d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);

		error = 0;

		if (file && !IS_ERR(d)) {

		if (file) {

			if (d == NULL)

				d = dentry;

			if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
@@ -593,8 +593,6 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, 
				error = finish_no_open(file, d);

		}

		gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(ghs);

		if (IS_ERR(d))

			return PTR_ERR(d);

		return error;

	} else if (error != -ENOENT) {

		goto fail_gunlock;

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