we want the assignment to err done inside the if () to be visible after it, so (re)declaring err inside if () body is wrong. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ static void *hostfs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
char *path = dentry_name(dentry);
int err = -ENOMEM;
if (path) {
- int err = hostfs_do_readlink(path, link, PATH_MAX);
+ err = hostfs_do_readlink(path, link, PATH_MAX);
if (err == PATH_MAX)
err = -E2BIG;
__putname(path);